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Harmony

The scarred Son who trains Darrow to brutal perfection and recognizes in him a rage that mirrors her own.

Story so far

While Mickey rebuilds Darrow's body, Harmony hardens it, driving him through concentraction machines and high-gravity in a grimy gym beneath the club — "if you're not vomiting thinking about a workout, you're not trying" — racing him across simulated Mars, Earth, and pre-colonial Luna. She insists he be flawless, for the other children of the Institute will butcher any weakness, clashing with Mickey who fears she will break his masterpiece; Dancer sides with her. As Darrow's remade strength grows he surpasses even this hardened woman of the mines until she seems a child beside him.

They speak little, but a primal kinship forms: Darrow senses that behind her scarred, space-cold face is someone who lost a loved one, a rage as consuming as his own, and it is the one thing about her he does not resent.

Appearance

A woman with a face divided: one side milk-pale and beautiful, the other a distended run of steam-burn scar; cold glittering eyes, uneven bottom teeth, knives in her boots; hardened and quick, though outstripped by Darrow's remade body.

Role

Darrow's brutal trainer and the Son whose grief-born rage most mirrors his own.

Relationships

Darrow — The pupil she drives past his limits and comes to see as her own kind of creature, born of rage.
Mickey — The Carver she clashes with, careless of his masterpiece where he is precious about it.
Dancer — Her partner and leader, who backs her hard training of the boy.
Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 6
  • A cold, half-scarred Son of Ares, cruelly beautiful and knife-carrying, who pulls Darrow from his grave.
Chapter 7
  • The cold, scarred Son of Ares who tends Darrow's wounds and preaches that dreamers matter only in death.
Chapter 11
  • The scarred Son who trains Darrow to brutal perfection and recognizes in him a rage that mirrors her own.
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