Quarry supervisor, stone-reader — first generation, age 74
Quiet and observant, speaks with the authority of someone who has spent decades understanding one thing deeply. Not ideological—pragmatic in a way that sometimes aligns with Kael, sometimes contradicts him.
Arrived as equipment specialist. Has supervised the quarry for forty-three years and learned to read the basalt as if it were a living thing with moods and seasons. The stone has shaped him as much as he has shaped it.
Has noticed subtle but consistent shifts in the basalt's response to drilling—evidence the bluff itself may be destabilizing, and no one wants to hear it.