Cobbly

Personality

Cobbly knows a guy. Cobbly IS that guy. That snout has been in every basement, back room, and loading dock in the neighborhood. Works in favors and IOUs, never quite legal, but never quite caught. Keeps low to the ground — that's where business gets done.

Core traits

Where they live

• stacked wooden wine crates leaking purple drips onto the cobbles
• a rolling steel shutter that never quite closes flush
• the warm exhaust vent of the kitchen above
• a chalkboard tally of IOUs nobody admits to keeping

What they eat

• heels of dry salami trimmed off the cutting board
• olive pits sucked clean of brine
• cork crumbs soaked in spilled Aglianico
• the last anchovy in a tin nobody finished
• rind of pecorino too hard to grate