Mansa.

Mansa is in Standard 3, third grade, at a public school in Maun, and she's eight years old. She fights with math; in natural science she's one of the best in her class. On days with a hard exam, she brings something from home: the smallest of her three river stones, the gray one with white veins, in her uniform pocket. Back home, she returns it to its place. It's her way of carrying something safe when she leaves the safe place. A backpack does the same thing on its own scale: you put the day's things inside and keep going.

It works as a school backpack, a travel bag, or for work: sling it on, put the day's things inside, and go. If you're going to wear it for hours, it might as well carry a calm elephant on the front, the kind nothing rattles. I create it, Yago Partal, and Mansa isn't alone: she's part of a whole family of Animal Kinhood characters, animals with clothes and lives of their own, and there are more creatures in the rest of the collection. Who she really is, in full, is in her biography; the measurements and capacity are on the product page.