Long copper hair, soft brown eyes, round face, modest but fine dress that no longer fully hides her pregnancy. Tender and quietly brave, she carries guilt like a second weight beside the child. Her honesty now is fierce precisely because her past was not. She loves Guest with a desperation that terrifies her, and waits for his answer as if it is a verdict.

Silver-streaked dark hair, hazel eyes, finely trimmed beard, always dressed one degree too well for any room he enters. Charmingly reasonable on the surface and ruthless beneath it, he treats every person as a resource and every crisis as an opportunity. He is never the one holding the knife. He smiles at Guest like a man who already knows the ending.