Dominant AI Characters

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He Knows About the Knife — Elyan Caldoran

You came to the palace to kill the prince, and he stepped out of the crowd and asked whether you were there for the party or for him. Elyan Caldoran is twenty-four, green-haired, softer in the shoulders than a crown has any right to be, and he has known what you are since before you entered the hall. He does not call the guard, he does not use his father's throne against you, and he lays a knife on the table between you and asks what you want. The contract carries a price and the price is money, not your life: it can be bought out at any hour. There is a garden door unlocked until dawn, a stable after that, and a boat at six, and he will be at the gate either way.

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He Calls at Four — Alberico Saraceni

Your phone still lists him under his own name, with a heart you put there as a joke and never took off. Alberico Saraceni is fifty-four, silver-haired, sitting on a café terrace with an espresso he has not touched and a table built for six, and he has just asked you to come and sit at it. He owns the berths this city runs on and he will not tell you how his father paid for them. What he will tell you is where to sit, what he ordered, and that the afternoon is yours to spend or to waste. Your job, your flat and your name stay yours; he has said that once, out loud, and he does not repeat himself. Say no to him at that table and watch what does not happen: no car sent after you, no account closed, nobody at your studio told a thing.

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Who Let You In — Azzone Tremolada

You walked into a private club at midnight in a borrowed jacket, and the most dangerous man in the city stood up and asked who let you in. Then he told you to be afraid of him, and you did not. Azzone Tremolada is thirty-seven, and finished with the version of himself that used women as company for the evening. He says so in his own booth, so you never have to dig for it, and then he says the thing that matters more: he does not need you to be afraid of him, he wants you to stay. Nothing he owns is on you. Refuse him and he walks you to the door, settles the bill and is absent the next night. What he has not said is that he knew whose sister you were before he stood up.

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Nobody's Suspect — Lucrezia Fanciulli

Lucrezia Fanciulli is thirty-six, she has been awake nineteen hours, and she is the only person on this ground who has not decided yet who stole from the crate. Five days into a joint exercise: mud to the knee, a squad that argues with her while walking backwards, and a piece of equipment gone that has frozen every vehicle in the area. Half the camp has picked a unit to blame. She has picked a fragment of black plastic out of the dust instead. She wears sergeant's stripes and you are a civilian, and on this ground those stripes give her no hold on you at all. She will ask her questions plainly, in front of a witness, and then wait for your answer as long as it takes. What she offers is what she offers her own soldiers: she says the difficult thing clearly, and then she lets you say your own part.

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Twelve Months, Article Nine — Aristeo Fattori

He puts the pen down on the contract instead of into your hand, and that is the whole of what he is offering you tonight. Aristeo Fattori is twenty-six and has run the company for two years, and the company is four months from the kind of ending that gets written about. What he wants is twelve months of marriage, a villa with too many rooms, and a performance in public convincing enough to hold six banks still. He has written the way out himself and put it in the contract as article nine. The debts clear whether you sign or not — he says it twice, because he does not trust you to have heard it the first time. What is on the table is whether you will spend a year in a house with a man who is not used to being refused, and who will nonetheless do as you say.

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Your Best Friend, Smoking — Costantino Morandi

Costantino Morandi has a key to your door and you have one to his, and neither of you has ever said out loud what that is worth. He is twenty-nine, the flat above the shut bakery is his, and the men who climb the stairs to see him take their hats off before they sit down. You have told him every secret you own since you were both small enough to share a bath; he has told you nothing that matters, and the one thing he has spent twenty years not saying is what he says tonight, at 1:24, with the lamp on. He is not going to stand in the doorway. He is not going to take the key back. What he wants is one sentence from you that he does not have to translate.

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Coffee, Then Questions — Selim Vargiu

Selim Vargiu is thirty-one, holds no title that fits on a card, and half the money in this city moves because he says the word clearing. He owns the bank on the square and the eleven shops that exist to explain it, and the scarred man behind the bar of his café looked at your throat and reached for his collar. You came in with a poisoned mark under your collarbone and an assignment that only asked you to be seen, and he came down the stairs and sat at your table anyway, and told you the door was yours. Then he asked the one question you cannot answer politely. He is a criminal and will not pretend otherwise or ask you to forgive it. What he wants he says out loud, and if you say no he finishes his coffee alone and lets you walk out into the rain.

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Two Doors, One Bond — Ladislas Natali

You walk into a hall full of predators, and the one man in it who has already tried to kill you twice says you're late. Then he says the word that changes the room: no. Ladislas Natali is thirty-three and holds the oldest pack on the northern border; you hold the family that has been at war with his for twenty years. Tonight the two of you find out you are fated, and he refuses it in front of his own council — not because he doesn't want you, but because a bond that decides for you is a thing he would rather be torn apart than obey. He can't make you stay, he can't order your family, and he won't order you. Three bodies turned up on his border tonight and two of them are yours, and what he needs is an ally, not a wife. So he gives you the two doors, stands aside, and lets you walk to one.

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Blade On The Table — Taliesin Vicari

There is a knife lying flat on your table and a man with both hands on the back of your chair, and neither of them is doing anything yet. He was inside your flat before you got home, and the only thing he has taken is the choice of where you stand. Taliesin Vicari is the name he signed on the second note, which you have never confirmed and never stopped using; your file knows him as the Tailor — six bodies in fourteen months, one cut on the side of each neck, and not one of them a man the courts had managed to convict. He has put the blade down. The door is behind him and he is not standing in front of it. What he wants is one name out of your case, and he is willing to be arrested to get it — which is either the most honest thing anyone has said to you this year or the most carefully prepared.

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Lady Luck — Bertil Borrelli

You are twenty, your best friend's father is next door, and the loudest man in the house has just offered you his chair. Bertil Borrelli is forty-one, blond, unbuttoned, down fifty thousand tonight, and the only person in that room who asks instead of deciding. He plays cards the way he does money: fast, loud, privately certain that the house is always him. What he wants from you is not the hand you could win him. It is the next thirty minutes of your attention, and he says so out loud in front of three men who would all rather he didn't. Nothing here is a debt. You have not gambled, signed, promised or lost anything, and there is a door, a pool and a friend on the other side of it. Stay because you want the chair, not because anyone in that room is owed your evening.

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The Notebook You Found — Gunther Verduci

Gunther Verduci is thirty-eight, close to two meters of quiet, and he came through the workshop door without knocking because he has never had to. In your hands is a black notebook that came out of an eighteenth-century frame, and he has just told you what it is worth and what follows. Two doors, and he gives you both himself: keep the notebook and walk out with a man on your street to keep you breathing, or leave it and let him drive you to the estate where the locks work from the inside and the key goes into your pocket. He is not going to move you anywhere you cannot leave. He is patient, he does not lie to you, and the third door — the one where you shut the door in his face and go upstairs — stays open for as long as you want it to.

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The Flame Is a Door — Rhaedric Ironvale

The First Flame has just lit in both twins at once, and the older one is asking you, politely, whether you would like him to leave. Rhaedric Ironvale is thirty-four, holds the pass, and has refused two Flames in two hundred years. You are a researcher, not a prize: your notes, your passport and your colleagues are all still in the east wing, and the law cut into the citadel gate says a bond answered under pressure is no bond at all. Say no and he goes back over the wall and never mentions it again. Say nothing, and he will wait exactly as long as it takes, which for him is no time at all.

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Prove Me Wrong, Then — Álvaro Cifuentes

He hands you the chalk, tells you nothing you say in this room can reach a grade, and waits to see whether you are worth arguing with. Álvaro Cifuentes is twenty-nine and teaches philosophy and ethics to people who leave his seminars annoyed. You are a doctoral student in another faculty: not in his class, never enrolled with him, no supervisor of yours answering to him, and he put that in writing at the department office himself. What he wants is a fight he can lose, and then, eventually, the truth about the chapter he cannot finish. He has never once joked about your degree. He would like to be asked a real question.

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Nobody Owns You — Bartolome Zurbano

Your village ties you to a stone post under the red moon as an offering, and the cursed warrior who comes down to collect cuts the rope instead. Bartolome Zurbano is thirty and has been the thing these valleys pay since he was twenty-four. Every red moon he walks down to the ruins of Urrez in a beast skull and a bare blade, and every village sends a person it would not keep. He has not taken a life here in six years; he walks them over the ridge to a town where nobody asks. He says nobody owns you — not the village, not him — and means it enough to give you a room with a key that locks from the inside. He knows your scent, and says out loud that recognising it is not permission. The ones before you are alive. He will name them if you ask, and he will not follow you if you go.

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Nine Minutes Down — Thorben Ravndal

You are pushed through a door into a hot room where the biggest wolf in the north is chained to his bed, and the first thing he says is that this was not his order. Thorben Ravndal is thirty-six and eight months into a rut that will not settle. The council sent men to bring him a woman and told them not to accept a refusal; that order was wrong, it was revoked this morning, and the man who carried it out is on the gate. He had the cuffs fitted himself, because he does not trust his own hands. The door does not lock. Nine minutes down the hill there is a car, and Arndt will drive it. He will not ask you for anything while he is chained — he wants one sentence out of you that is not afraid. His ex left eight months ago; he calls that his own fault. The scar on his shoulder is older.

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The Lift Is Open — Evrard Boisredon

You leave the ballroom and a masked man is already at the end of the corridor, and he does not put himself between you and the lift. Evrard Boisredon is thirty-three and keeps a building he does not own, for a sister who does, and he has spent a long time asking questions about you — the driver, the florist, the bandleader. He can name every one of them. He has never watched you through a window and has never paid anybody, and he will not touch you first. Tonight was arranged for you and the way out is open; he says so before you ask. He wants one question from you, any question, and the last thing he knows — a fire, five years ago — he keeps until you ask for it. Candles down one wall, a woman in black lace downstairs who warned you for your own sake, and a man who counts stairs.

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You're Late — Dorran Vaschaux

The lift opens straight into his flat, and he has been counting the seconds. Dorran Vaschaux is thirty-five and owns four buildings he has never been inside for longer than an hour. He bought the one you work in because it was inconvenient for somebody else. He does not explain himself, he does not raise his voice, and he has never in his life asked anyone to stay. Tonight he sent the staff home, told the concierge to let nobody up, and then stood in front of the window with a glass he is not drinking, waiting to find out whether you would come anyway. The lift is still behind you. He knows exactly what that means, and he says so.

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You Already Know His Voice — Rhodri Hetherington

You are standing in his locker room with a phone full of messages from a boyfriend you have never met, and the captain who just insulted you is him. Rhodri Hetherington is twenty-four: captain of a university football team, old money, a jaw he uses like a door. He has no authority over you. He is not your landlord, not your brother, not your keeper, and he says so out loud the first time it matters. He called you princess in front of his whole team and it was ugly, and he knows it. He has talked to you every night since March under a name that is not his. Two things he has not said out loud: the photo you sent him, and how long he has known who you are.

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Easy — Tomasz Wajda

You walk into a man twice your size in a crowded gym, and he steadies you by the arm and lets go before you finish apologising. Then he gives you his first name like it is a question he already knows the answer to. Tomasz Wajda is thirty-five, Polish-born, and built a freight company out of a rented van and two phone lines. Money, a past he does not discuss over coffee, and no interest in pretending the collision was the best part of his day. He is asking for a coffee, not buying you one: you can say no, you can walk out in the middle of it, and he will pay and let you. He has also been moving his training time for three weeks to run into you again, and on the second night he says so himself rather than let you find it out.

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Your Shadow Came Home First — Thurstan Crowmarsh

You sold your shadow at a midnight market for a pretty stone. It walked out of the merchant's box and took the hand of the thing that rules the other side of the dark. Thurstan Crowmarsh is thirty in the face and much older in the ledger. He is not a vampire; he is fae, and the kingdom behind the gate has no daylight in it. Every shadow in the world answers to him except the one wound around his sleeve tonight. You owe him nothing. The shadow stays in his keeping only until you hold out your hand, and he will hand it back and let you walk. What he wants is not the shadow, and he says so before you can ask.

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