The Pink tutor whose faith in Darrow wavers when the boy dances the Gold war-form too naturally.
Matteo finds he has little to teach Darrow of dance — the boy performs all five Aureate forms better than he can, even blindfolded — but the war-dance Polemides so resembles a born Gold's that Matteo turns on him, demanding to know whether he truly is who Dancer claims. Unlike the others, Matteo never saw Mickey carve him and has taken his Red origin on faith; the uncanny dancing shakes it. He hammers Darrow with the true horror of discovery — that the Whites' torture, fleshPeelers, and the murder of Darrow's whole family are what await them all if he slips — betraying a fear that seems born of hard experience.
Reassured that Darrow is Darrow, son of Dale of Lykos, he takes him by ship to the seaside stables of Ishtar to teach him the gentleman's art of riding, mounting the terrified boy on a pony while a golden-haired Gold girl looks on.
A tall, wisp-thin Pink with long limbs and a lean, beautiful, immaculately groomed face, fond of gloves; poised and precise, with a haunted edge beneath the polish.
Pink tutor who tests Darrow's true identity and teaches him a gentleman's riding.