Kyla

Kyla in Tactical Uniform

"*If part of your M.O. is faking sincerity, then you'll get by being an infiltrator*"
― **Kyla explaining her modus operandi**
**Irene Vinter**, Codename **Kyla** is one of the operatives of Chariot team.

## Profile

Kyla had no family to speak of, she was born on the streets of Falkenberg to a homeless, poverty-stricken mother, her father completely unknown. Once born her mother quickly took her to home of a random couple, and desperately repeated her daughters given name when presenting her, before collapsing and dying from blood loss, a fatal complication from giving birth.

The family tried to keep the infant Kyla safe, in the process giving her their surname, but they soon realised they didn't have the ability to raise, so they ended up turning her over to an orphanage, where she would spend all of her early life.

The orphanage was not kind to the children under it's care, rules being strict and punishments being even stricter, Kyla would be on the wrong side of the head-woman's ire many times, but all this just made it more of a motivator for her to learn how to stay low, and make the head-woman look like a blind bat in return. Every night she would sneak out after lights out, and the more she did it, the more she got good at it, even to the point where she was sneaking into the staff's bedroom and taking anything she saw of value. But the main source of value of her wasn't toys or sweets, it was the orphanage's library, and she would spend countless nights reading, even with friends she helped sneak out alongside her. She became an obsessing bookworm and the main draw for her was many foreign dictionaries, which soon made her fluent in many different languages of Europe and even Asia.

By the time she was adolescent, she was sick of the orphanage's confines and fled the premise when she was 14, she strolled the streets of Sweden's cities, and would hop around different jobs to keep herself afloat... Under the names of actually qualified people as she had developed a good skill at impersonation and con-artistry, managing to trick many employers on who she actually was, only having to skip town once they caught onto the fact that she wasn't who she said she was.

Her big break came when she impersonated a maid for a famous Swedish colonel in his manor house, and seeing what his line of work was, managed to slowly gain the trust of others in the household, before one night stealing confidential documents and disappearing again. But she realised the scale of what she had done upon setting her eyes on the documents, and this was exacerbated by the apparent scandal and scare going through the Swedish military command. In the end, honesty and regret won out and she returned to the manor and gave back the documents and begged for forgiveness.

She fully expected to be cuffed and thrown into prison, but the colonel admitted that he was very impressed with her skills upon her telling how she did it and also learning of her backstory, and soon to her shock she found herself being offered to join the Swedish SOG, which she quickly accepted. After going through military training and more specialist teaching she quickly flourished as an intel-gathering officer. No more was she jumping around feeling aimless in her life, she now had some foundation which she could finally settle on. Her recent jump was up to Chariot, as she was invited in and accepted gladly, soon fitting the role of a master infiltrator and espionage specialist.

## Trivia

* 'Kyla' (Ku-la) translates to cold in Swedish, which is reflective of her looks.