Jess
The Lost Daughter
“Alright. I will do it for us.”
Having fled Taria at twenty with a single photograph of her mother, Jess came to Vryehelm to join the soldier who had sworn to raise her as his own. She trained as a medic so that she might follow him onto the crew whose success would buy her mother's freedom, on the promise that she would be kept far from the fighting. Young and overlooked, Jess sees more of her companions than any of them suspect, and she has not yet decided what to do with what she knows.
Bonds
- Viktor The Man Who Killed a STAR
- Jack Bergen The Frysian Wolf
- Axel The Lionheart
The Chronicle
The Phone Call
Jess's mother, Polina, was taken by soldiers in Taria. In the last moments before they broke down her door she made one call, and she used it to make a man promise that he would guard her daughter as his own. That man was Viktor. Polina warned him that those who came for her would come for the girl next.
The Photograph
At twenty Jess crossed into Vryehelm by train, carrying one bag and a single photograph of her mother. Viktor had chosen the free south because it lay farther from Tarian eyes than anywhere else he could reach. There she took a false life as a teacher of refugees, and there she met the people who would become the crew.
The Bargain
The crew's paymasters promised that if the Millennium was stolen, Polina would be freed. Jess told Viktor that she feared the mission. He would not hear it, and so she agreed for the sake of the three of them. She keeps the photograph against her chest and watches the others closely, for she trusts her fear more than she trusts their leader.
No one on the crew watches the medic. She watches all of them.