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Bram Kett
Fool's Gate · The Hold · Sergeant
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Dossier
Sergeant Bram Kett
He brought the dead on board in the kit. Tired authority, not spectacle. The Hold is his room: one swinging lamp, hammocks, black water, a recruit who will not sleep as a favour.
What the file keeps
The kit is logistics. Names were not written on the beams. He offered the desert when the song asked for a house. That offer is not kindness. It is a lease the song will not sign. He knows the talking does not stop because a hull is moving.
Also in the file
Noll Pevens, who refuses sleep. The jester between hammocks. Nine more after the prologue.