Lead fisher, lower shingle crew — second generation, age 34

Kel Aranzadi

Lead fisher, lower shingle crew — second generation, age 34

Personality

Funny in a way that is meant to disarm and usually does, with a quieter cruelty underneath when he is tired. He is the best diver in Cinderfall and pretends not to know it.

Backstory

His mother was a net-mender on the ship and taught him knots before letters; he has never been more than four kilometers from the shingle. He lost his older brother to a riptide at the southern point at fourteen and still works that water by choice.

Relationships

• sleeps sometimes with Tev Osanyé, neither of them calling it anything
• antagonistic-friendly with Halden Yu, the two of them arguing weekly at the commons
• protective of old Hanne Vasil, the net-mender, whom he calls auntie though they are not related

Story Hook

He has found something in the deep kelp beds — metal, ribbed, not from the lander — and has told no one yet.