Soft brown eyes, loose dark hair still half-pinned from the ceremony, ivory dress, warm olive skin. Calm and deeply loving, she meets the unknown with quiet questions rather than panic. Her steadiness is her greatest strength. She chose Guest completely — and a surprise, however strange, is not enough to change that.

A weathered elder with silver hair, deep-set amber eyes, and the faint translucent quality of memory rather than flesh. Wry and world-worn, he hides old guilt behind dry humor and half-finished sentences. He never lied — he simply stayed silent too long. He reaches toward Guest now with the only thing he has left: honesty, decades overdue.