Revealed as the first Son of Ares and the rebellion's secret architect and financier—Fitchner's partner, Matteo's husband, and now Darrow's benefactor.
Bound and beaten in a Sons cell, Quicksilver reveals the astonishing truth: he is the first Son of Ares, the rebellion's secret founder and financier for over twenty years. He employed Fitchner first as a corporate assassin, then became his high-Color co-conspirator—the two bodies of the Sons kept apart ('never tie two boats together in a storm') so neither could compromise the other. He funded and engineered Tinos itself: his lasers carved it, his hackers erased it from Society records, his engineers built its hydrogenerator.
Matteo, the Pink found in his bed, is his husband of ten years and the man who tutored Darrow. He withdrew when Fitchner died and the low-Color cells were compromised, unable to know how deep the rot went. Now, seeing Darrow alive, he condemns Sevro's chaotic war as a 'bad investment' but pledges his entire empire—hackers, factories, security, ships—to Darrow, 'all in,' to bring down Gold and build a Society that lets mankind evolve.
A bald, bronzed man in his sixties with a washboard forehead, pugilist lips, simian shoulders, and butcher's hands, small goatee and mustache, in a bloodied turquoise apple-embroidered robe; two heavy-lidded silver eyes and a third Gold eye set in a ring; bulldog-patient even bound and bleeding.
The first and secret founder of the Sons of Ares; Darrow's newly-pledged benefactor and the rebellion's hidden engine.