The Coach That Only Goes Home
A spectral coach appears for homesick students and delivers them to childhood bedrooms—then locks the doors until they fail a test they already passed. Parents find empty beds that still breathe. Break the circuit, ride the coach as bait, or free a sibling stuck in a perfect past.
Faces in the wings
Kieran Dewfall
- Human
- Female
- Young
Role
- Occupation
- Treaty notary
Character
- Motivation
- Getting the harvest in before the first honest frost
- Personality
- Hot-tempered and volatile
- Background
- Equinox auction clerk who never bids
Details
- Quirk
- Bows slightly to strangers
- Speaking style
- Rapid-fire questions
- Private fear
- Wedding vows they almost made
- Secret
- Collects summer memories to pay August's gate toll
- Signature item
- Canteen that never empties on Tuesdays
Jasmine Stormborn
- Human
- Other
- Young
Role
- Occupation
- Honey vow escrow officer
Character
- Motivation
- Seeking to understand death
- Personality
- Practical romantic who courts with preserved fruit
- Background
- Watchmaker with perfect precision
Details
- Quirk
- Collects interesting pebbles
- Speaking style
- Pauses for imaginary applause
- Private fear
- Fire in crowded places
- Secret
- Has never slept—only trances in daylight
- Signature item
- School slate that writes tomorrow's absences
Ivan Brightblade
- Human
- Female
- Young
Role
- Occupation
- Perfume sommelier
Character
- Motivation
- Returning a borrowed sun before the lease expires
- Personality
- Warm and welcoming
- Background
- Former soldier turned merchant
Details
- Quirk
- Only drinks beverages through a straw
- Speaking style
- Whispers even in quiet rooms
- Private fear
- A lighthouse beam finding them anywhere
- Secret
- Taught the cicadas a name they should not know
- Signature item
- Ring that buzzes when oaths break nearby