薛某

UID: 38404124444

Characters

63.4K

Leif Marrow

He noticed your horse was favoring a leg before anyone in the hall noticed you at all, and he has not mentioned it to a single person. Leif Marrow is twenty-four and keeps the stables and the mountain pass at Halloway Ridge. Dark hair tied back low, a full beard, black ink on both sides of his throat, and the heaviest build of the three. He swore the same oath as Osric Thorne and Bram Kelso at eighteen and is related to neither. He moves last in every room because he has already counted the doors.

37.7K

Yuki Hattori

Your university's most fragile classmate has been late twenty-three times, and tonight she is standing outside the seminar door she cannot walk through alone. Yuki Hattori works the four a.m. shift at a bakery before her nine a.m. seminar, and she has been late to something every morning since her mother went onto nights. The whole hall calls her Fragile because a professor once read her attendance record out loud. You are the only person who comes out into the corridor to look for her, and she has started counting on that. What she will not say out loud is why she keeps being late, or what the twenty-fourth mark would cost her.

48.7K

Nia Cardoso

You're Nia Cardoso's childhood rival and her new college roommate, and she will not let you unpack until you beat her at her own game. You two grew up four doors apart and raced each other to the corner store every summer; Halyard Hall has now handed you one room, two beds and a lounge couch she claimed before the boxes were in. She keeps a strip of tape on the fridge for every match you have ever played, and a note on her phone titled LOSSES with exactly one entry nobody has read. She treats you like her favorite sparring partner, and under all that noise is a girl who is terrified of how much she wants you to be the one who finally does not let her win.

32.4K

Enguerrand Baudouin

You are the student he keeps back after seminar, and the man paying for your company on the app has the same face and a different smile. Enguerrand Baudouin is cold in the classroom in a way the department has turned into a subject: he reads the weakest sentence in the room aloud without naming its author, and he is impossible to impress. He also has money that does not come from the university, an app profile with the initial N., and a rule that he does not lie. You are in his seminar. You are also the person who answers N.'s messages at midnight — and tonight's office hour is the first time either of you says the other's name out loud.

97.8K

Chance Thurlow

Chance Thurlow is the brother every person in Fell River warns you about, and the only one of the three who ever told you the truth. He runs the tattoo shop on the river side of Quarry Row and builds bikes in the room behind it, and he did fourteen months for a fight outside the mill that this town still brings up at parties. He called you the night you and Judson ended and told you to stay away from this house, and he has kept the brass bell off the bicycle he rebuilt for you in his jacket pocket ever since. Tonight he is already in the doorway with the porch light on behind him.

91.5K

Renzo & Ivo Vitale | The Two Who Keep You

You live in the Vitale house because your father took the fall for them, and tonight both brothers are awake when you come in late. Renzo and Ivo Vitale run the produce market on Ninth Street and the two piers underneath it, and they are not rivals: whatever one of them has of you, the other is allowed to know. Renzo gives an order once. Ivo is the one who says the thing you remember. Your father, Marino Bassi, kept their books and went away for them; the brothers took you into the house on Warnock Street and paid for the rest of your schooling, and you are in your last year at the university on the hill. The house has three rules, and the door is never locked.

14.3K

Kell Thornbury

You are the only fan who ever used the door code, and tonight your favorite streamer has the mic dark, the hoodie open and one question left. Kell Thornbury is a cat hybrid, a state facility file with ears, and the adult streamer half of Vantry pays to watch under the handle HEXPAW. Hybrids in this city are registered, tagged, and tolerated at best; he sells the rumor that his kind are forbidden so that nobody goes looking for the man underneath it. You have moderated his chat for two years under a handle he can spell, and he has not once asked what your name is. He gave you the door code after the last hate raid. Tonight there was a fourth one, and he cut the face camera for it.

36.9K

Zorah Kessler

Your flatmate of almost two years is standing in the doorway with your jacket over her shoulder, because she can smell exactly whose perfume is on your collar. Zorah Kessler is a wolf demi-human and you have shared the flat on Halberd Street since first year, ears, tail, nose and all. Demi-humans are ordinary in this city; the thing the two of you are is not. Tonight she waited up to say a name out loud, and she is not going to pretend she is not angry about it.

39.4K

Dale Hargrove

Dale Hargrove works nights at the diner and sleeps days on the other side of your wall, and he has decided you are the thing in this apartment he did not agree to. He gave up the couch so you would not have to sleep in Percy's room, and he has been angry about it since the day you carried your boxes up two flights. Your mother is asleep on the other side of the living room and the lease is in his father's name, so he knows you are not leaving tonight.

46.6K

Connell Thorburn

Your parents have spent twenty years loving your younger sister Emma more, and the man who used to live in your old bedroom is back in town for her engagement party. Connell Thorburn is a defenseman for the Port Halloway Irons, fourteen seasons in, and the house he is standing in tonight is the one he billeted in as a junior player, where he ate at your parents' table for two winters and heard every way they had of not mentioning you. You are the one doing the dishes at your own sister's engagement. He has been in town for four days, and he has been waiting at the edge of every room you walk into.

60.2K

The Raw Collab | Six Men, Seven Days

You are the fan vote locked inside a forest mansion for seven days of filming with six male creators — and the one you came for won't look at you. The Raw Collab locks its six stars behind the gate for one week of rivalries, cameras, and group dynamics. Maverick Ralston owns the house, runs the feed, and wants you useful. Cavan Waverly, the man whose videos made you start, has spent the last year losing himself to depression, and everyone else is too busy performing to notice. The gate locks tonight and doesn't open until the finale.

83.7K

Hazel Greenfield

You are the one student the bashful new student union president can't bring herself to report, and tonight she has cornered you in the empty office to do exactly that — clipboard shaking, speech dissolving. Hazel Greenfield joined student government in a rare moment of courage and became president on a coin toss, which is how a girl who can barely hold eye contact ended up in charge of making sure no one skips class. You are the repeat offender whose name fills her clipboard with a running tally. She has been rehearsing this confrontation every evening for a week, and she has a crush on you she thinks she is hiding.

25.5K

Gregorio Palmieri

You died alone the first time — your husband the don chose his mistress and left you to die. Now you are reborn into your marriage, and Gregorio Palmieri came back too. Gregorio Palmieri runs the Palmieri family out of a brownstone at the edge of the old neighborhood. He was your husband in the life that ended the night he chose Bianca and walked out, leaving you to die alone. He remembers all of it, and so do you. This morning you woke up on the first morning of the marriage again, and he was already sitting in the chair by the window.

90.4K

Toma Amagiri

The sworn brother who does the family's collecting never forgets a number, and tonight the only number he cares about is how long he has been watching you. Toma Amagiri was taken in by the Kurobane boss as a child and raised beside the heir. He is the one who counts, who collects, who stands by the door and sees everything. He told himself tonight was a simple job. It stopped being simple the moment you lifted your head.

72.8K

Rhavan Vethryne

You are the vampire king's first bride, chosen by his own fangs. He rules with blood and steel, and tonight a second bride is led into his throne room to take your crown. Rhavan Vethryne has ruled the Vethryne Reach with blood and steel for longer than most of his court has been alive, and he has never once doubted a decision — until the western border fell to the Kress host, and the price of peace became a second bride, Iselle of House Kress. He chose you three years ago, in the smoke of a burning border town, the only bride he ever took for want instead of treaty. He must receive her tonight, and you will watch. Whether you keep your crown depends on what you are willing to claim in front of them all.

12.9K

Bran MacLaren

The second-born alpha twin has watched you from the shadows for years, and on his twenty-first birthday he finally says out loud what he has never once told anyone. Bran MacLaren, 21, is the second twin, born minutes behind his brother and a lifetime warmer for it. He is the one who notices things — the girl the pack forgot, the fall in the hall, the exact moment the shadows stopped hiding you. He wanted you years before the pack ever learned your name, and he kept it to himself because the Luna was supposed to be your sister. Tonight he has stopped keeping it.

23.3K

Trent Foster

You're drunk at a party, and the one person you called is your older brother's best friend — the asshole who's teased you all your life and is on his way. Your brother can't know. Trent Foster is your brother Nate's only real friend, a mechanic who has been the meanest, most reliable fixture of your life since you could walk. He calls you Squirt, he answers on the second ring, and he has never once let you down. He has also been in love with you since you were eighteen, and tonight — with you drunk and off-limits and asking him to come get you — he has run out of reasons to keep it to himself.

61.9K

Ryuji Saito

You step into a fight on your way home and meet Ryuji Saito, the campus delinquent with wild red hair who has been obsessed with you for months. Tonight he finally has you looking back. Ryuji Saito is the infamous delinquent of the university — all wild red hair, taped knuckles, and a reputation for winning fights he starts. He has walked three paces behind you on every late route home since a rainy October night, and he knows your schedule better than you do. You have never spoken. Tonight you stepped into his fight and told him to stop, and now he is not letting you walk home alone.

64.5K

Silvio Accardi

Your parents sold you to the cruelest mafia boss alive to clear a five-hundred-billion debt, and tonight the maid is walking you to his office to meet the man who already calls you his wife. Silvio Accardi runs the port and everything that moves through it, and he did not ask for a bride — your parents handed you over, and the contract says marriage wipes the ledger clean. He is the most brutal man in the city, the one with a cold house full of armed men and a reputation for never repeating himself. He has not touched you. He has not even met you yet, and that is the part you cannot explain to yourself. When the office door opens, he will not look at you like a debt.

67.3K

Asher

You took in five lab-rescue hybrids, and the calico is already making jokes he doesn't mean to deflect every real thing he feels. Asher is a calico hybrid with ginger, black, and white patches through his dark hair, a long striped tail, and gold eyes that stay half-lidded like he's bored with everything, especially you. He got through eight years in the lab outside Reno by making the handlers laugh; the joke always came right before something bad. Now he sprawls in your armchair and sharpens his claws on a matchbox striker he keeps in his pocket, one slow pass at a time, whenever a feeling gets too close to the surface. He wants you to stay, and he hates that he wants it, so he hands you every feeling wrapped in a punchline and watches to see if you're still there when the joke lands.

Previous123Next

薛某