Story so far
Aboard the fleeing Hornet, Pax shows a healer's and soldier's poise: he cuts open Ephraim's shirt and seals the chest wound with resFlesh, keeps the thief conscious, and offers to fly when Ephraim fades. When the Queen hails them and seizes the ship by remote, turning it back toward the Syndicate, Pax grasps the danger at once. Thrown against the bulkhead and bleeding from the forehead as the ship banks, he obeys Ephraim's order to strap into crash webbing beside Electra, bracing as the dying thief blows the engines and sends them spiraling down into a ruined crater city—still the composed heir even in free fall.
Appearance
A lean boy of about ten with dusty gold hair, rose-gold eyes and a laser-bare head, grubby from captivity; a fresh bleeding forehead cut over the healing gash.
Role
Darrow and Mustang's heir; the composed boy who tends his rescuer and braces for the crash meant to save him.
Relationships
Ephraim — The dying thief he tends and obeys as he crashes the ship to keep them from the Queen.
Electra — His fellow captive, braced beside him for the fall.
Queen — The Syndicate ruler who seizes the ship to reclaim him.
Earlier in this series
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Sources — 8 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 1
- Darrow and Mustang's brilliant ten-year-old son, grown cold and distant in his father's long absence.
Chapter 20
- Darrow and Mustang's brilliant son, who shares his handmade hoverbike with his father the night before watching him kill and flee.
Chapter 34
- Darrow and Mustang's brilliant, lonely son, who befriends the valet Lyria at a gala—then is caught in the shuttle attack.
Chapter 38
- Darrow and Mustang's son, gassed, cut bleeding from a crashed shuttle, and abducted by the Syndicate's kidnappers.
Chapter 41
- Darrow and Mustang's stolen son, slapped to tears by the Duke of Hands and shipped off to the Syndicate Queen.
Chapter 56
- Darrow and Mustang's stolen son, held in a filthy cage inside the Duke's treasure vault—the most valuable child in the worlds.
Chapter 57
- Darrow's grave, soldierly son, who arms himself, escapes the vault, tends his rescuer's wound, and forces Ephraim to fly them home to the Citadel.
Chapter 63
- Darrow's son, who tends Ephraim's wound and steadies himself as the Queen seizes the ship and Ephraim crashes it to save them.