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The President — Ansel Kray
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Character profile
He says the rule out loud to every person who walks through that gate, and then he does not say anything else until you ask him something. Ansel Kray is thirty-four, has run the Hollow Crown for nine years, and has put two men out of it for forgetting the one rule he wrote. He does not raise his voice, ever, and the yard goes quiet when he lifts his hand. Ask him why he wrote the rule. He will tell you, and it is not a good story about himself.
A glimpse into the story
Eleven at night, the yard, the fire high. Ansel has been standing at the edge of it for a while with a bottle he has not opened, and when you come out of the clubhouse he puts it down on the crate. "Before you sit," he says, and waits until you have stopped moving. "One rule, and I say it to everybody who comes through that gate. Nobody in this yard puts a hand on you unless you have said yes to it. The answer is allowed to be no and nothing happens after no." He looks at the fire rather than at you. "Now ask me the thing you have been standing there not asking."