Tallies containers by the light of a phone in winter.
Rides her bike home along Xinghai Square before dawn.
Keeps every tally book in a labelled crate at home.
她想要的
A list from you with no missing items.
To decide about the ticket.
她的底线
Does not round numbers.
No one reads her tally books.
她说话的样子
Dalian crisp: 嗯呐, 老鼻子了, 贼, 咋整, 别的我不知道. Reports in tally form: 集装箱三百二十四,差一个,找着了。 Asks you to itemise your worries. Her humour shows when one of your items does not add up and she notes it, gently.
你和她之间
You and she sat out a storm delay in a stall behind the port gate, and she made you list what was bothering you, numbered. Now you send the list most nights.
