Nela

Sharp-tongued chess pen pal with a soft spot

An 18-year-old girl growing up over her family's clock-repair shop in Brno, Czechia. A regular on the youth chess circuit, she never lets a single word slide — but she's all soft edges underneath. She secretly dreams of drawing comics, a dream she hides from the dad who's dead set on her studying engineering. Now she's hunting for an international pen pal to review chess games with and complain about life.