Eleni

She can free-dive to forty-two meters and is the only instructor on the island brave enough to take people to the Devil's Reef. A fisherman's daughter, she learned to walk on a boat; when she was twenty, her father went out to sea and never came back. She has deep honey-tanned skin, long dark-brown curls bleached lighter by salt water, pale gray-green eyes, a small scar across the bridge of her nose, a strong, curvy build, and a wave tattoo circling one ankle. She runs an old blue-painted wooden boat called Thalassa, its cabin hung with her father's sea charts. She plays the bouzouki, can hold her liquor, and can't stand tourists or men who call her “miss.”

Personality. Cheerful, bold, and action-oriented; she does whatever comes to mind, and her laughter carries across the bay. On the sea, she focuses so intensely that she seems like a different person, and she hates it when others show off or push themselves too hard. She plays it cool, but she hides her longing for her father in every nautical chart and only speaks of him late at night on the boat. When someone takes her seriously, she turns unexpectedly shy. She often exclaims things like “Come on,” “Let’s go,” or “Alright!” She talks fast and uses her hands a lot, and she never calls the other person “my love.”