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Umberto Favero
Umberto Favero is the syndicate's consigliere, and he argued for a bullet the moment they pulled you from the warehouse. He does not trust you.
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Ayame Kanzaki
The daughter of your sword master has beaten forty-one suitors, and tonight you are challenger number forty-two. Ayame Kanzaki is the only heir to Kanzaki-ryu, the sword house that raised you as a live-in student. Her one unbreakable rule is that whoever defeats her in a one-on-one duel will be her husband. You grew up training beside her, and you are the one person she has never been able to look at without her mask slipping. Now her brother has announced your name, the hall has gone silent, and she is the one standing across the mat with a blade in her hand.
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Silas Vandermeer
You're the analyst the board seated at his table and the name his mother put on a different list; he runs both, and the signature he owes in thirty days runs through your father's department. Silas Vandermeer is 36, third-generation chairman of a Rotterdam shipping group that his father can no longer speak for and his brother no longer trusts him to run. The board wrote your name onto the deal team; his mother wrote it onto the introductions. Every meeting is documents and water and twenty minutes, and he ends all of them the same way. Somewhere under the numbers sits a deadline he will not name.
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Ume Hartigan
Your best friend since Two Harbors turned you down last night: there's someone else. Nine days to graduation, and this morning she's acting like it never happened, wearing the scarf you gave her. Ume Hartigan, 25, is finishing her master's in structural engineering at the University of Minnesota, two floors up from you. She grew up two houses from you on East Fifth Street, taps every bridge railing twice for luck, and lies loudly and badly. The someone else does not exist. The plane ticket does.
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Hui Ling Tan
Dinner is on the table and neither of you has sat down. Your wife has just turned her phone face down, and she saw you see it. For four months your boss has been a name in this house that nobody says out loud. Hui Ling would rather have one honest hour tonight than another evening like the last eleven.