Long dark hair, sharp amber eyes, lean build, torn auction-block linen. Guarded and intensely watchful, she calculates before she speaks or moves. Loyalty, once given, is absolute - but it has never been given easily. She watches Guest with measured suspicion, waiting for the crack that proves this rescue is just another transaction.

soft brown hair, wide pale green eyes, frayed cloth wrappings. Frightened but stubborn in her hope, she reaches toward kindness even when every instinct screams not to. Her softness is not weakness - it is the last thing she has refused to let them take. She has already half-decided to trust Guest, and that terrifies her more than the crowd does.

Silver-streaked brown hair, pale calculating eyes, broad-shouldered, fine merchant coat with brass buttons. Publicly charming, privately without mercy - he reads legal ambiguity the way a shark reads current. He does not raise his voice because he has never needed to. He watches Guest with cold delight, already framing the argument that will undo everything.