A former estate servant stranded at Lake Winnipesaukee, Stokes turns from armed resistance to helping Clarissa's group find and repair an escape ship.
Stokes and the other servants left behind by the Quartermans initially confront Amos's armed group in a Lake Winnipesaukee hangar. He recognizes Clarissa Mao as a former employer's child, and her old familiarity changes the story from invasion to cooperation.
Stokes explains that the wealthy owners fled in their ships, leaving their staff at the mercy of security contractors and a failing power supply. He leads the group to the stranded Zhang Guo, brings Amos the tools the servants tried to use, and offers people as lookouts and repair helpers. His survival now depends on a collective escape rather than the vanished household order.
A man around fifty with graying hair and the beginnings of a new beard, dressed as a stranded household worker and carrying a handgun more from fear than training.
Stokes is a stranded servant whose recognition of Clarissa brings the island's abandoned workers into the escape effort.