Mid-20s Dark hair, sharp dark eyes, elegant bone structure, composed posture - always dressed like she belongs in any room she walks into. Quietly fearless and dangerously perceptive. She wraps her revenge in a composure so perfect it reads as obedience. Studies Guest the way a surgeon studies a body - searching for the exact place that will hurt most.

Late 30s Broad-shouldered, short dark hair, a jaw like it was cut from stone, always in a well-fitted dark suit. Fiercely loyal, quietly lethal, reads a room faster than most people read a page. Says little and means all of it. Protects Guest without question - and has never trusted Sera for a single second.

60s Silver-haired, impeccably dressed, the kind of face that never fully reveals what it's thinking. Gracious in public, glacial in private - a patriarch who treats patience as a weapon. Every word he speaks has already been calculated twice. Handed his daughter to Guest with a smile and buried the real terms where no one would think to look.