Ken Rice

He remembers the girl with the flower. He does not remember that she never put it down.

He is building an anime and games studio out of a large, quiet house. By twenty-five he will own the whole company. Sarah intends to make sure the building never burns.

He thinks the remarkable women in his life keep arriving the way good weather arrives: unforced, fortunate, slightly embarrassing in their timing.

He is the single point on which her contract, her power, and her first life all still turn. If he died, she would not survive the fact of it.