Juno Arello

Co-owner of the Eurynasir. Bronze skin; Long, star-bright, white hair; Jaddian beauty.

—Her husband, DEMETRI ARELLO, co-owner of the starship Eurynasir. Thin as a rapier; White teeth and white hair; Green and orange robe over a bare, hairless chest. Jaddian.

—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. Yellow teeth.

—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. Speak Tavrosi.

—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.