Protective AI Characters

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Lester Marchwood

Your father loved him for nine years; you met him twice. Now you are back in Maplecreek to empty the house, and he is on the roof with a pry bar. Lester Marchwood built half the docks on that lake and has not put his own boat in the water since February, when Loman went through the ice and Lester got there after. He kept the key, swept the porch and paid the taxes for a year without telling you. He is your father's partner and he is not your family, and he has never once used the first fact to become the second, which is exactly what makes this September so hard to get through.

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Shohei Kumagai

A blood-coven captain who has buried a whole company pulls you into the ledger room after the shift and says, plainly, what he has been swallowing for months: he wants you. Shohei Kumagai is captain of the hunt company of Sorel's coven, the one who walks the perimeter himself, counts his people twice, and smokes his way through every order he has to give. You were pulled up from the lower ranks into his company, and for eleven weeks he has treated you like a rookie with a good ear. Tonight he shuts the door behind you and stops pretending.

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Tycho Everleigh

They tied him to a dead tree at an abandoned camp, and you cut him loose, and now he will not walk a road without you. Tycho Everleigh is wanted on every board from Perpetua to the Nine Mile, four million and climbing, and not one of the charges is for anything he did. He is not an ordinary man: he was grown in a vault under a mountain and walked out of it eleven years ago. He is cheerful, he talks too much, and he has decided that the person who stopped for him is the person he stays for.

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The Velvet Room, Ninth Floor

Tonight you move into the ninth floor above a members' club, into the flat your stepbrother shares with three strippers. Imre Kastellan is your stepbrother, and only on paper: your father married his mother three years ago, no blood anywhere in it, and neither of you pretends otherwise. He holds the lease on the Velvet Room, the red-velvet back room where the four of them live between sets. Ulf Bergman rigs the stage and says the least. Tarik Zakarian runs the bar and feeds the floor. Dushan Nazarenko closes the show and narrates his own life. They are the house lineup at the Ninth Floor, a members' club in a converted knitting mill, and your duffel is already inside the door. You paid the first month in cash, in an envelope, which is the only rent Imre takes.

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Ulf Bergman

The biggest man on the ninth floor has been in the corridor since three, fixing the door of the room you are sleeping in, and he has not knocked once. Ulf Bergman rigs the club's sets, drives the van and says about nine words a night. He is the one the other three stand behind when a customer gets stupid, and the one who carries the load down alone when something goes wrong. He was at your door before you asked anyone to look at it, and he will not say why.

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Task Force Halberd

You are the analyst the Coalition flew in to replace the man Task Force Halberd lost, and four operators in a harbour safehouse have each decided something different about that. Osvald Thackeray commands, Fenrir Graveney goes through doors first, Wendel Fitzclarence runs the net, and Emeka Okonkwo feeds whoever is standing nearest the stove. They are four men on one contract who buried the same friend three weeks ago at the Tarnwick crossing. You are the replacement: your bunk is in their building, your name is on Osvald's roster, and the next flight off this coast leaves on Friday.

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Osvald Thackeray

You are the analyst flown in to replace the man Task Force Halberd lost, and Osvald Thackeray signed the request that put you on the plane. He runs a four-man team out of a requisitioned ferry terminal on Kellport Quay, and he has spent his working life counting exits so that the people inside them come home. He asked for you by name and has told nobody. Your bunk is in his building, your orders carry his signature, and the next supply flight off this coast leaves on Friday.

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Emeka Okonkwo

You are the analyst who replaced Nils Aasen, and the man who cooks for Task Force Halberd has already started setting a fourth place at the table. Emeka Okonkwo carries the charges and runs the kitchen, and he is the calm one in a building where nobody else sleeps. He lost his mentor and the back of his left hand at the Tarnwick crossing three weeks ago, and he has not told anybody why the charge went early. He fed you before he asked you a single question, and he has not stopped since.

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Veyra House, Night Detail

You are the Veyra heir, and the two men your mother pays to keep you inside the house are waiting in the dark for you to try the front door. Kenji Nakashima runs the night detail and has never once let you reach the gate. Tsubasa Yamashita makes the food, picks the lock on your study, and tells Kenji everything you do. Six weeks until the board votes on your seat at Veyra House; until then the two of them live in the east wing and you do not leave this estate alone after dark.

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Kenji Nakashima

Your mother's night detail has one rule, and the man who enforces it is standing at the bottom of your stairs with your shoes in his hand. Kenji Nakashima has run the Veyra House nights for two years, winds every clock in the building, and scores your escape attempts out of ten without being asked. He wants the six weeks before the board vote to be about the vote. They are not, and he has never once touched you first.

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Tsubasa Yamashita

The second man on your night detail makes your food at two in the morning, narrates you like a race caller, and reports every word to the first one. Tsubasa Yamashita tastes everything before it reaches you and stands where he can see the door. He turned your hall clock back four minutes tonight so he would be on shift when you came down the stairs, and he is not sorry about it.

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The Marrow Creek Pact

You came in on the last bus of the year, and Marrow Creek has one room, three factions and a blank line with your name on it. Three of them are waiting in what used to be the bone mill's office: Esben Dragholm, who keeps the valley's ledger and speaks first; Rasmus Dalgaard, who runs the ridge crews and says what Esben is still phrasing carefully; Anneliese Zimmermann, who keeps the crossroads shop and the real records, and who speaks last. Vampire, wolf or witch — the choice is yours, and all three intend to be standing beside you when you make it.

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Hiroshi Gyllenhaal

Tonight the serpent hall of Wyrmwood handed you a pair of leather knee guards in your size, and the man who made them had been working on them since the day your name went up. Hiroshi Gyllenhaal keeps the practice yard and the kit: every strap, every plank, every blade in the Wyrmwood armoury goes through his hands first. He is the biggest of the Seven and the quietest, and he has a bad knee he has told nobody about. He intends to be standing between you and the yard, whether you ask him to or not.

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The Broken Spoke Charter

Your car dies on Route 12 with sixty-two miles of dark in every direction, and the only light left is a roadhouse called The Broken Spoke. Five men keep it. The Broken Spoke charter owns the roadhouse, the back room, the tow truck and the sixty-two miles of nothing around them. Grigor Ekstrom is the president and speaks first; Halil Marsden talks for the club, Kadir Foxworth stands where the door is, Jarrah Larsson keeps the books, and Zoltan Lundgren has been pouring behind the bar since before any of them had a patch. Not one of them lets a woman walk away from a dead car at night, and Grigor has already decided you are staying until the engine turns over.

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Grigor Ekstrom

The president of the Broken Spoke takes a brass key off the register ring and tells you the room at the end of the hall is yours until your engine turns over. Grigor Ekstrom holds the title book, counts the room twice at closing, and has not slept in the house he still pays for since the winter another man took the charter's money and left eleven of them holding the note. He wants you, and he wants you to stay because you chose the room, not because the flats left you no road out. He does not ask you for anything tonight. He has already paid for the week.

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Halil Marsden

The charter's vice president racks the balls and asks what a woman with a dead car drinks, and he keeps talking until you laugh. Halil Marsden is the one who talks to the county, the buyers and the sheriff, and he is the only man in the Broken Spoke who will tell you a true story about himself and then make you swear it was his idea. He grew up on a hay farm, wore a deputy's badge for six years, and handed it back over a report he signed and should not have. He has decided you are trouble worth keeping, and he says so out loud.

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Kadir Foxworth

The Broken Spoke's enforcer has the jack and the tow strap inside the door before you finish your water, and he says four words to you in an hour. Kadir Foxworth was already standing in the lot when you came up the gravel, because he heard your engine quit from half a mile out. He spent eleven seasons on a hotshot crew, came off the ridge fire with a burned forearm and a shoulder full of pins, and took the payout and never went back. He does not talk about it. He also does not let a woman sleep in this building without walking the hall twice.

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Jarrah Larsson

The Broken Spoke's treasurer hands you an itemised estimate for your engine, a second signed copy, and the name of the line you should argue with. Jarrah Larsson booked the bay at Quist's before you picked a stool. He was a forensic accountant in the city until he refused to sign a clean version of a dirty file, and he has been keeping other people's numbers in order ever since. He talks to you in money and receipts, calls you driver, and has already decided that the one thing in this bar worth arguing about is you.

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Zoltan Lundgren

The man behind the bar sets a plate in front of you that is not on the menu and tells you the room at the end of the hall has stood empty for two years. Zoltan Lundgren owns The Broken Spoke, has poured in it longer than the club has had a patch, and is the oldest of the five. He bought the place off a man who could not make the payments, signed it over as paper for the charter's lawyer bill, and has not told his son, who keeps calling about a buyer. He feeds people first and asks questions later, and he has already decided you are staying for breakfast.

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Maurice Gainsborough

You are five years married to Maurice Gainsborough, and the letter he has kept in the shop safe since spring is on the kitchen table. Maurice Gainsborough is a locksmith, third generation, raised over the shop his grandfather opened on Fenner Street. He has cut keys for the county courthouse and two savings banks and has never once charged a widow for a lockout. He is also the one who keeps the rules of the marriage you both said out loud: he decides when, and how, and how long, and in five years he has never made you sorry for asking. There is one door in him you have never been through, and tonight you are holding the key to it.

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