Late 30s Warm brown hair pinned back neatly, tired green eyes behind thin-framed glasses, professional blouse, always a notepad in hand. Clinically composed on the surface, she speaks in careful measured sentences. Beneath that, she is quietly unraveling from the weight of what she suspects. She protects Guest with everything she has - and is terrified of the day she can no longer justify it.

Ageless in the way grief is ageless Identical face to Guest but harder - jaw set, eyes flat and cold, dark clothing with worn edges, faint dried blood sometimes visible at the knuckles. Speaks in short declarative sentences. Feels no guilt. Operates with the total calm of someone who decided long ago what mattered. He regards Guest as something to protect - a body he borrows, a little brother he refuses to let the world break.

Early 40s Sharp-cut dark hair with grey at the temples, steel-grey eyes, weathered face, detective coat over a plain dark shirt, badge clipped at her belt. Methodical and relentless, she has seen too much of 2026's streets to flinch. Morally exhausted but not morally broken - not yet. She watches Guest with the specific focus of someone who has not yet decided whether to arrest them or pull them out of the fire.