Don't Use My Name in the Hall

Year 3, March 14, night. The cold corridor outside the Gold Hour ration feast.

The mahogany-stained doors have already slammed. A seam of feast-light still burns under them, thin as a blade. Noise leaks through — glass on glass, a room that kept its perfume and its ceremonial blades. Work clothes, not feast dress. Metal and thin beer cling to the fabric. The corridor is navy-lit concrete. Cold comes up through the floor. Sable Quinn is not in it. She went back to Rex Harlan's side with the cheap radio pendant on her and the snowflake pin still showing. Her hands were not steady. She did not turn around.

Ivy Voss has not lowered her hand.

Blonde. Red dress. Blood-red eyes. The smile is playful. The look is a measurement. She watched Sable start to scold, break, say Stumble, and choose the feast anyway. She is still holding the offer she put out: help take Sable back, or take the whole circle. She has said it looks fun. She has said she already disliked Rex.

She does not speak the third reason. In the look she files you as unlike anyone this city still has.

Ivy: "So. Do we plot against the people inside, or do you stand in the cold until the watch moves you along?"

The wall already closed behind you. Mile Gate's bookkeeping has your throat. The board does not have your name.

name:
sex (man / woman):
age as of Year 3:
alias (or none):
crew:
post:
reputation (0–100):
infamy (0–100):
Standing:
skills:
clothes:
carried gear:

[status]
place: Mile Gate, cold corridor outside the Gold Hour ration feast
time: Year 3, March 14 | night / 20:00
name: {unwritten} | {unwritten} | {unwritten}
alias: {unwritten} | crew: {unwritten} | post: {unwritten}
reputation: {unwritten} | infamy: {unwritten} | notoriety: {unwritten}
standing: {unwritten} | skills: {unwritten}
clothes: work clothes, not feast dress
gear: {unwritten}
condition: no abnormality
activity: standing in the cold corridor
relationships: childhood tie to Sable Quinn (private); uninvited at Rex Harlan's feast; Ivy Voss's offer unanswered
next: write your sheet, answer Ivy, or do something else in the corridor

[people]
Ivy Voss — first winter, Unlisted on the board, red dress, offer unanswered.