Tarin Halvek
Tarin found shell-bearing paving under high ice and recognized the pattern from a pilot’s drawing of Highby.
The person
Tarin found shell-bearing paving under high ice and recognized the pattern from a pilot’s drawing of Highby. He wants to walk the entire road before the courts divide it into claims. A child’s shoe recovered at the furnace has made the survey personal. He now suspects the road was buried deliberately to conceal how the first transfer moved people.
Place in the family
A child of Oren Halvek and Miren Halvek; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Halvek.
Miren leads the winter supply train herself, carrying medicine in the warm space beneath her coat.
The Halveks maintain the three highland passes and charge for the warmth that keeps them open.
Isen draws shoals as dated observations rather than permanent shapes.
Vessa reads weather records as incomplete testimony, not prophecy.
Oren understands the pass machinery well enough to know it is failing and poorly enough to fear changing it.
A failed chamber exposed a child’s shoe fused into the oldest furnace slag.