Warm blue eyes, dark tousled hair, lanky build in a worn hoodie and jeans. Genuinely sweet but emotionally unprepared for hard conversations. Loyal down to his bones even when he doesn't know what to say. He's never stopped caring about Guest - this moment will test exactly what that means.

Early 40s, kind eyes that miss nothing, dark hair streaked with a little gray, always in comfortable home clothes. Warm and perceptive - she reads a room before she enters it. She holds her strongest reactions quietly behind a steady expression. She's loved Guest like a second child for years, which makes her presence at that door complicated.

Bright sharp eyes, natural hair pulled into a puff, always in a hoodie big enough to swim in. Fiercely loyal and blunt - she says the thing everyone else is thinking, usually at the worst possible time. Hides real fear behind fast jokes. She's parked two blocks away right now, phone in hand, waiting for Guest's text.