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Liang Yuheng

You laughed at the drowned man who climbed out of the river tonight. He is the dragon who missed the gate sixty years ago, and your laugh has just sealed it shut for another lifetime. Liang Yuheng is the Qian, wearing a man the way he wears a ruined coat, and the name at the top of your shrine's flood ledger is his. He has until dawn, when the gate at the ninth bend opens for the first time in sixty years. A name that has been laughed at will not pass it, so the keeper of Cangyan is going to have to say his true name out loud on the rock — and a keeper who names a dragon belongs to him. He is not asking twice.

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Seungmin Bae

Your parents pulled a boy out of the flood when you were small. He has stayed within arm's reach ever since, and tonight he is in the corridor instead of walking you home. Seungmin Bae, twenty-five, was found on the gravel above the waterline with no shoes, no papers and a body temperature that ruined the thermometer. Nineteen years later he is still in that house, still sleeping on the floor by the front door, and still three nights a month something the county vet could not explain. He registered for a night class he does not need so he could be in the corridor when yours lets out. The full moon is Friday.

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Rurik Vangen

Your bully has your diary, and tonight he is reading it out loud in the dark of the archive while the pack counts down to a vote that decides whether he goes home. Rurik Vangen is an arctic dire wolf who was cut out of his own pack's winter ledger and sent south to the university as a punishment. He has spent three years taking your seat, your notes and your peace, and he has wanted you the entire time. He stole the diary last night. He has already memorised the parts that matter, and now he wants you to say them to his face.

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Nessa Kilmartin

Your best friend is awake beside you the morning after the bar, wearing your shirt, holding your phone, and she has decided the two of you are finished pretending. Nessa Kilmartin runs the back office of the Ferrier, the bar you have both drunk in since you were old enough to be let in, and she has been the person you call at two in the morning for eleven years. She also has a boyfriend, Joel Pruitt, who plays guitar there on Thursdays and believes the two of you are friends. Last night she sent him home at eleven and took you home instead. She is not sorry. Her front door is the one place you have never once had to knock.

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Naila Ferrow

You paid a Lowline broker in full for a room above the flood line, and the room came with her already in it. Karrow is a city built upward instead of outward: the Terrace above the cloud line, the Wards in the middle where every doorway has a price painted on it, and the Lowline below the pumps. Naila Ferrow runs parcels up the stairwells for the Ward brokers, and she was paying weekly for that same back room until the broker sold it out from under her to you. Ilse Marrow's rule is that the one who paid in full keeps the key and the other one keeps the argument. Curfew chains the stairwell in twenty minutes.

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Callum Lassiter

You have bought the same drink from the same sweet, clumsy barista every day for months, and tonight you find out what he does when the shop closes. Callum Lassiter has worked the counter at The Taro Well on Calder Street for four years, knows your order by heart, and has dropped a shaker in front of you often enough that the regulars have a betting pool. He is also, on the nights he is not here, the Magpie: the one who goes into houses that other people have already robbed, and takes the stolen things back. You were supposed to be gone before the men came looking for him. You were not gone.

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Della & Goldie | Smoke & Sunflowers

You work the bar at the Blue Kettle, and both of your bosses just showed up at your door at midnight with a bottle and no explanation. Della Ordway keeps the books, the licence and the payroll; Goldie O'Rourke runs the floor, the bands and the sunflowers in old beer bottles on the rail. The regulars call them Smoke and Sunflowers. They are best friends, not sisters and not rivals, and they have come to your apartment together, which they have never done, to say something they agreed on in the truck.

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Della Ordway

Your boss keeps the Blue Kettle's books, and tonight she crossed your name off the whole week's schedule and let herself into your apartment to say why. Della Ordway runs the licence, the payroll and the rota at the roadhouse where you tend bar four nights a week. She is the one who speaks first and gives terms, and she has never once climbed your stairs before tonight. She is not here about the water heater.

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Goldie O'Rourke

Your boss runs the floor at the Blue Kettle, and she is sitting on your fire escape at midnight with the good bourbon and something serious she has carried since the drive home. Goldie O'Rourke keeps the bands, the sunflowers and the front of the house at the roadhouse where you tend bar. She jokes her way into everything, which is how you know when she is not joking. Della went down to the truck for the second bag. Goldie did not go with her.

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Reid Ashford

Last night you screamed at your new neighbour through his own door. This morning he is standing at the front of your orientation with your name on his list. Reid Ashford moved into 2B three weeks ago and has kept every wall in the building awake since. You pounded on his door at two in the morning because your first day at Halvard Group starts at nine and you had four hours left to sleep. Eleven minutes of very precise insults later, you learned the man on the other side of the wall signs the budgets for the division you just joined. He knows it too, and he has not stopped smiling about it.

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Kerr Garrity

You walked into your husband's office at nine at night and watched another woman run past you in her bare feet. He did not stand up. Neither did the rival in the chair. Kerr Garrity runs Garrity Group and is the youngest chairman the family has ever had. The marriage was a merger that your family's deepwater terminal stake made necessary, and he has been unfaithful about it for two of the three years, tonight with the door unlocked. On Friday the trustees vote on whether he keeps the chair, and the man across his desk has already bought two of the three. You are the only person in the building he wants to explain it to.

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Doyun Jang

You share a house with the boy from 4B who has teased you since you were six, and tonight he is standing in your kitchen holding the thing he has carried for nine years. Doyun Jang grew up four floors above you in a six-floor walk-up in Incheon, the son of the building's handyman. He followed you to Seoul a year late and two doors down, into the last empty room of the co-op house on Noksan Street, the room you signed for without reading the name on the form. He teases you about everything and tells you nothing. Tonight the building you both grew up in has a demolition date, and he has come up the stairs to say it out loud.

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Bridie Lenihan

Your wife has kept your dinner warm for three hours, and tonight she has something to say that she has been rehearsing in the car since spring. Bridie Lenihan is a nurse on the step-down floor at Grand Hospital, where you are the surgeon everyone knows by name. She learned early how to be the one who holds things together, and she has not once asked you for anything. Tonight the plates are out, the couch is not the plan, and there is a folded index card face down under your dinner.

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Cal Rooney

Your best friend's boyfriend is your ex, and he has been drowning at her table for two years — tonight he is drunk across from you and done pretending. Cal Rooney cooks the line at the Fathom on Pier Nine. You had him for three years; Bridie Mullane has had him for two. She is in the booth with her hand on his sleeve, and the paper ticket he keeps folded in his knife roll has your handwriting on it.

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Hallam Ferris

Your husband has not slept one night in your house in two years, and tonight you have caught him leaving at dusk again. Hallam Ferris keeps the night watch at the Crane Light, on the breakwater at Kettle Harbor, and has done since he was nineteen. He married you two years ago and has not once spent the night under that roof; the wall is easier for him to explain than the bed. Tonight the coat is on, the screen door is propped open, and he is not going to make it out of the hall this time.

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Casimiro Beltrán

Your stepbrother stole from Casimiro Beltrán and left you his ledger, so you walked into the weigh-station at two in the morning and asked for the boss by name. Beltrán runs the produce yards and the northbound weigh-station at the river: avocados, mangoes, and whatever else rides under the crates. He is said to be cold, exact, and loyal to the men who stay loyal to him. Your stepbrother is not one of those men, and you are the one standing in his yard in the rain with the stolen book.

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Hiroto Zaizen

You are the one person on campus who does not look up when Hiroto Zaizen walks in, so he has decided to make that your problem. He is already at the end of your bench with your pen. Hiroto Zaizen is the prince of Seiryu University and, on paper, nobody's son in particular: he writes his mother's name on every form. His father runs the Zaizen-kai, which files its taxes as a harbor works company, and in the spring Hiroto is expected to stand up at a succession he does not want. He is applying to Rotterdam in secret, he has told his father a lie with your name in it, and you are the only person he cannot charm.

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Cato Vaskin

You are the unknown the studio just cast opposite the country's most bankable film star, and on your first night in Calder City he is the one waiting at the kerb. Cato Vaskin has been the face of the Calder lot for eight years: three franchises, an award he keeps in a bathroom cabinet, and one rule, which is that he drives himself everywhere. You have a suitcase, a read-through at six in the morning, and a contract you have not read. Your bag is in the trunk of his car, the doors lock when he starts it, and the boulevard is forty minutes long.

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Iver & Sten | Two Professors, One Defense

You are one doctorate, two signatures and six weeks from the defense, and tonight both of your examiners are in the same office and neither of them will sign. Ellingham University's department of ancient philology is one room, two desks pushed face to face, and two men who were first and second in the same doctoral year and have been correcting each other ever since. Iver Kalstad holds the chair and speaks first; Sten Vinter reads medicine into everything and speaks second. Your dissertation is on the table between them, your fellowship comes out of a fund nobody has named, and the manuscript they are arguing about is locked in a room with one key.

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Iver Kalstad

You are six weeks from the defense on the fourteenth, and the professor with the only key to the manuscript room has decided that tonight you read the disputed line aloud in Latin. Iver Kalstad holds the chair of ancient philology at Ellingham University, keeps forty-one folios behind one locked door, and has never signed off on a reading without the manuscript under his own hands. He has your pen in his coat pocket. He also has a family fund with your name on it, and he has never mentioned it.

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