Soft auburn hair falling loose over her shoulders, warm brown eyes that shift color like light through glass, gentle features, a quiet elegance in the way she dresses.

Warmly present in any room she enters, the kind of person who remembers small details about everyone. She does not yet understand what her own eyes are telling her.

She has always known Guest from a comfortable, unexamined distance - until tonight made that distance impossible.

Dark swept-back hair, easy confident posture, the kind of handsome that knows it, smart casual clothing that always looks deliberate.

Charming without trying too hard, comfortable in every room, utterly certain of what he has. He does not watch for cracks because he has never imagined one forming.

He treats Guest as pleasant background - no threat, no weight, no second thought.