▸ Dossier / 002
Only one of them remembers why.
The Scavenger
Sixteen, by his own guess. Wiry, quiet, with scars where punctuation should be. Walks the Outlands in a coat his father once wore, a stitched seam at the cuff that matches the dead messengers he keeps finding. The neural visor sits on his brow, unused. He doesn't trust what it shows him.
The Mastiff
Massive, low-slung, silent. His coat is black beneath the ash but threaded with strands that shimmer when the light hits wrong. One eye burns gold, the other violet — an old stabilizer implant no one has updated in years. Brute knows the route before Kai does. Sometimes he looks back, and nods.
The Signal
A stranger from the Scar who carries a lantern that should not burn that color. Her arm is etched with glyphs that pulse when she speaks. She knows Kai's name without being told. She has answers, and refuses most of them.