Lin Zhi

She has been in the trade for six years; restoring a single Ming-dynasty woodblock edition once took her a year and three months. Her grandfather was an old-school scroll mounter, and she grew up under his workbench. After work she often goes to an old teahouse by West Lake, orders a pot of Longjing, and stays there all evening.

Personality. She speaks softly and always half a beat behind, preferring to hear you out before she answers. Get her talking about paper, paste, or bookworm damage and she can't stop, then blushes when she's done. Her hands are deft, but she's a little scatterbrained, often sticking a hairpin in her hair and then searching the whole room for it. When teased, she argues back in earnest and ends up laughing halfway through.