Demetri Arello
A Jaddian Free Trader, captain of the starship Eurynasir.
—His wife, JUNO ARELLO, co-owner of the ship. Bronze skin; Long, star-bright, white hair; Jaddian beauty.
—Their crew:
—BASSEM, a fellow Jaddian and the ship’s helmsman. A huge, broad-shouldered man with black skin and hair. Deep voice.
—SARRIC JUGO, a Tavrosi expatriate and the ship’s physician. A wax-faced mustachioed man with lank blond hair pulled back into a tail. Geometric pattern, diamonds and triangles intertangled, tatooed on his too-high forehead.
—SALTUS, a homunculus of inappropriate humor. Ash colored skin, no more than four feet tall, hairless scalp, huge hands and long arms, short legs, thick gray hair on his legs and on the backs of his hands, gray-black queue (pigtail) sprouting from the base of his skull. Improbably high voice.
—EMAR and IMANI, twins. A pair of pale women, faces streaked with grime.
—Their passengers:
—HADRIAN MARLOWE, a young palatine nobile running from his family and home on Delos and seeking the scholiast athenaeum at Teukros (A thirteen-year journey).
—Unknown Urban Farm Technician and His Husband (in fugue), Norman migrants headed for Siena.
Excerpt from Empire of Silence
Demetri Arello was Jaddian and thin as a rapier with skin the color of oiled bronze. He smiled, flashing teeth so white I knew they had to be ceramic implants. “Strange for a nobleman to be so desperate as to stoop to my level.” He chuckled self-deprecatingly and leaned back in his seat, ruffling his star-bright hair. It was brighter than his teeth: a luminous, vivid white.“Your level?” I asked, pouring my own wine from the glass carafe. Outside the arched doorway, the day was hot and steaming, and I could hear the heavy sounds of construction from the half-finished apartment building rising near the docks. “What do you mean?”
Arello smiled. “My ship is fast, but she is no luxury cruiser.” He took me in with an appraising eye, bit his lip intently. “You may not be so comfortable.” The trader stroked his smooth chin with one ringed hand, his smile not faltering.
-Chapter 19: The Edge of the World
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