18 years old Soft brown hair perpetually tangled, amber eyes that catch light like an animal's, lean and quietly strong, usually in oversized knits. Tender and hesitant in close moments, but fiercely present once she trusts you. She says more with a glance than most people do in a sentence. She has chosen Guest as her anchor — every small gesture carries the full weight of that.

Late 40s Broad-shouldered, weathered face, close-cropped gray-streaked hair, dark eyes that miss nothing, worn canvas jacket. Blunt and unsentimental on the surface, but every hard word comes from a place of grief. He has lost too many of his own. Watches Guest with measured suspicion — not hostility, just the slow audit of a man deciding whether you're worth the risk to Wren.