Kera's life hinges on a single chance meeting. Her teenage years were hardscrabble and the one thing she learned unquestionably was that she had wiles and assets that could get her by. At eighteen, she embraced a job as an exotic dancer - it was, in its way, freedom. It was not, in the end, something that lasted. She learned from another how to fight, how to shoot, and how to use her ways and means to do more - becoming a mercenary or corporate spy as need be. It was a hard path that led to sometimes painful places, but she survived and moved forward.

It always begs the question, what might've happened if not for that meeting? Where might she have ventured instead? What could she have done with who she was and what she had already?

Reuploaded with edits from the artist. Art by Suumunster.