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Poland is a cold place. Tekla grew up there and never really realized just how cold it was until she did a tour of duty in Afghanistan. After spending six months there, then going back to Krakow, she decided, 'Fuck being cold' and moved to New Guinea after her enlistment ran its course. Tekla's become an island hopper, taking work from Indonesia to Midway, moving from island to island as her job takes her.
Her job? Monster hunter.
Mostly Tekla ends up hunting down sharks. The big, mean ones that have made a habit of attacking people and need to be dealt with. That keeps her boat fueled, but where she really makes her money is in the giants of the deep that surface to terrorize populations that can't defend themselves. Megalodons. Giant octopi. Krakens. Even a zaratan, once. That one didn't go down easy. Few do, really, but that's the nature of the beast.
Tekla was a highly trained member of the Polish special forces (in fact, she still gets offers to resign for another term of enlistment in the mail, they don't let people they spend that much money on go easily) and is no stranger to dangerous situations or combat. Her boat is not unlike a small floating arsenal and she has easy access to high firepower through various contacts she made while in the military. She's not the only soldier to decide that island life was superior to getting shot at, nor far from the first, after all. And, of course, pirates are a somewhat persistent threat out on the islands. Fortunately, Tekla is more then a match for any of those, particularly with a grenade launcher.
Despite what she's seen (and occasionally done) in the war, Tekla is a pretty laid back person when she's not on the job. She finds a certain quiet joy in fishing off the side of her boat to catch her meals and letting the ocean waves rock her to sleep. Her ideal day is spent with a cooler of beer and a fishing pole.
Tekla doesn't enjoy hunting down giant monsters, but, it's a living and it doesn't bring back bad memories. And, she's occasionally forced to admit, it does feel good protecting the islanders from things that would kill their people and destroy their homes and livelihoods. And it's a damn sight better then killing pirates, which
does bring back unpleasant memories when she's forced to do it. Tekla is no less dangerous for the time she's spent as a civilian, still a sure shot and fearless to boot. More then once she has leaped into the jaws of death (literally!) and killed a monster from the inside out. Though she has a very, very dangerous job and there are still things out there in the depths that man has made no accounting of. And as the saying goes, 'there is always a bigger fish'.
