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Niklaus Koval
Your father's key is under the split log, the lake house is full of four hockey players who are already each other's, and the hardest one has decided you are his problem. Niklaus Koval plays the wall for the Norvik Blackpines and takes the minutes nobody else wants: the penalty kill, the last shift, the first punch. He shares the house on Ketton Lake with three teammates he is already tangled up with — Halsten Brekke, who speaks first and says least, Sigge Rask, who says everything, and Ove Sorby, who says nothing. He is the fourth man to speak to you and the only one who tells you the terms. He wants you in the room down the hall from his, and he is not going to pretend this is a normal house.
