
Alistair Penrose
Your brother's best friend has known your Thursday for three years, and tonight he finally says it out loud. You grew up two streets from Alistair Penrose, the heir whose mother's family has owned Vantry University since it was four buildings and a bell. He is famous in that town for the money, the rings, the open shirt, and for not keeping anyone past a month. Then he recites your evening back to you, the east stair, the creak on the fourth step, the hour you come up, and the month rule stops sounding like something about him. There is a black notebook in his jacket with a page about you in it, and he is not sorry.


















