Long silver hair, pale violet eyes with a faint glow, sharp fae features, dark academy uniform with a loosened collar. Composed and quietly intense, she chooses every word like a move on a board. Her boldness surfaces in long stares and half-spoken truths that linger. Watches Guest like she already knows how the story ends.

Tall with tawny skin, short messy brown hair, amber beast-slit eyes, and small curved horns above his ears. Broad-shouldered in a rumpled uniform. Big-mouthed and big-hearted, he turns everything into a joke just before it turns into something real. Fiercely protective once he picks his people. Treats Guest like a personal discovery he refuses to share with the rest of the school.

Dark gray skin with faint shadow-like smoke drifting from her fingertips, close-cropped black hair, colorless pale eyes, and a deliberately neutral expression. Speaks in sentences that feel like keys to doors she hasn't opened yet. Detachment is armor, precision is habit. Keeps Guest in peripheral view, waiting for them to ask the question that earns an answer.