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	== Relationships ==		== Relationships ==
	- '''[[Ollery]]''' - The relationship is purely transactional in the early chapters: "He only needs results, not five pages of theory with diagrams" - ch 1 HoW. He is sparing her as much as he can, ordering her off the field, sending her on a casualty wagon as a gentle deception - ch 12, ch 13. Yet Alv counts him among those for whom "friendship is also a debt, and each one of them's a hook in her flesh that nothing can heal" - ch 11. He warns her during the purge: "You have to heal. Or they'll do you like they did Erinael" - ch 45.		* '''[[Ollery]]''' - The relationship is purely transactional in the early chapters: "He only needs results, not five pages of theory with diagrams" - ch 1 HoW. He is sparing her as much as he can, ordering her off the field, sending her on a casualty wagon as a gentle deception - ch 12, ch 13. Yet Alv counts him among those for whom "friendship is also a debt, and each one of them's a hook in her flesh that nothing can heal" - ch 11. He warns her during the purge: "You have to heal. Or they'll do you like they did Erinael" - ch 45.

	- '''[[Masty]]''' - He anticipates her needs without being asked - the cruet, the candle - and she acknowledges the debt with "a gracious nod" - ch 10. He catches her when she falls, pulls her away from a dying student before she can destroy herself - ch 12. Alv heals his lash-wounds to balance the scales before a difficult meeting, feeling she "owed him too much" - ch 29. In the Gallete period he deliberately avoids helping her so as not to put her in debt; there is a mutual quiet understanding - ch 16.		* '''[[Masty]]''' - He anticipates her needs without being asked - the cruet, the candle - and she acknowledges the debt with "a gracious nod" - ch 10. He catches her when she falls, pulls her away from a dying student before she can destroy herself - ch 12. Alv heals his lash-wounds to balance the scales before a difficult meeting, feeling she "owed him too much" - ch 29. In the Gallete period he deliberately avoids helping her so as not to put her in debt; there is a mutual quiet understanding - ch 16.

	- '''[[Tallifer]]''' - Described alongside Alv as "the backbone of the hospital department" - ch 10. They have worked side by side ten years; he treats her injuries, shields her from unnecessary cases, offers her the right to refuse his questions - ch 16. His hand on her knee at the hospital fire breaks a decade of self-imposed isolation, and she feels an imbalance-debt she has never owed before - ch 39.		* '''[[Tallifer]]''' - Described alongside Alv as "the backbone of the hospital department" - ch 10. They have worked side by side ten years; he treats her injuries, shields her from unnecessary cases, offers her the right to refuse his questions - ch 16. His hand on her knee at the hospital fire breaks a decade of self-imposed isolation, and she feels an imbalance-debt she has never owed before - ch 39.

	- '''[[Yasnic\|Maric Jack]]''' - Jack assists her during mass-casualty influxes and applies ointment to her charred scalp and clawed hand after she melts her own face off to absorb a soldier's burns - ch 4. She recognizes her own debt-burden and guilt in him and comforts him at night on the Gallete island - ch 16. She protects his box from confiscation without being asked, revealing hidden defiance beneath compliance - ch 19.		* '''[[Yasnic\|Maric Jack]]''' - Jack assists her during mass-casualty influxes and applies ointment to her charred scalp and clawed hand after she melts her own face off to absorb a soldier's burns - ch 4. She recognizes her own debt-burden and guilt in him and comforts him at night on the Gallete island - ch 16. She protects his box from confiscation without being asked, revealing hidden defiance beneath compliance - ch 19.

	- '''[[Banders]]''' - He regards her with "absolute reverence," calling her the most beautiful woman in the world despite not liking women romantically - ch 3. In the Gallete period he checks whether she can see, holding back from mockery when she looks "exhumed from a tomb" - ch 16.		* '''[[Banders]]''' - He regards her with "absolute reverence," calling her the most beautiful woman in the world despite not liking women romantically - ch 3. In the Gallete period he checks whether she can see, holding back from mockery when she looks "exhumed from a tomb" - ch 16.

	- '''[[Callow]]''' - He addresses her as "magister," "a title she wasn't due, but one of clear respect" - ch 29. She teaches him sympathetic healing; he twists the discipline into weaponised wound-transfer chains on bound prisoners without her consent - ch 41. She calls his students "her students, her responsibility" - ch 41. In the climax he fires a tableth-rod at her skull; she reflects the wound, killing him instantly, after she has already massacred his squad with a four-foot cleaver - ch 46.		* '''[[Callow]]''' - He addresses her as "magister," "a title she wasn't due, but one of clear respect" - ch 29. She teaches him sympathetic healing; he twists the discipline into weaponised wound-transfer chains on bound prisoners without her consent - ch 41. She calls his students "her students, her responsibility" - ch 41. In the climax he fires a tableth-rod at her skull; she reflects the wound, killing him instantly, after she has already massacred his squad with a four-foot cleaver - ch 46.

	- '''[[Erinael]]''' - Alv's grief over Erinael surfaces in whispered fragments: "If Erinael was here..." - ch 12. The narration confirms Erinael was sent to the Decanters and rendered down into [[tablethi]] - ch 39. His fate haunts her sense of what the army will do to those who stop being useful.		* '''[[Erinael]]''' - Alv's grief over Erinael surfaces in whispered fragments: "If Erinael was here..." - ch 12. The narration confirms Erinael was sent to the Decanters and rendered down into [[tablethi]] - ch 39. His fate haunts her sense of what the army will do to those who stop being useful.

	- '''[[Hellgram\|The Under-warden]]''' - In DoSF, Alv arrives at the House of Hard Angles, strips the soldiers' protective wards with "a finger on the scales," and completes the Under-warden's ritual mathematics when she cannot take his wound because it "belongs to a different world" - ch 45 DoSF. He tells her, "I owe you more than I can pay back," and she replies, "Well I owe the universe more than I can pay too. So somewhere we're quits" - ch 46 DoSF.		* '''[[Hellgram\|The Under-warden]]''' - In DoSF, Alv arrives at the House of Hard Angles, strips the soldiers' protective wards with "a finger on the scales," and completes the Under-warden's ritual mathematics when she cannot take his wound because it "belongs to a different world" - ch 45 DoSF. He tells her, "I owe you more than I can pay back," and she replies, "Well I owe the universe more than I can pay too. So somewhere we're quits" - ch 46 DoSF.

	- '''[[Tally]]''' - At the Fever Lodge, Tally holds the group's "final word" but defers to Alv because "she was almost always right" - ch 32 DoSF. They travel together through the portal at the novel's close - ch 49 DoSF.		* '''[[Tally]]''' - At the Fever Lodge, Tally holds the group's "final word" but defers to Alv because "she was almost always right" - ch 32 DoSF. They travel together through the portal at the novel's close - ch 49 DoSF.

	- '''[[Ollery\|Oathan]]''' - He will not fight Alv, not from fear of her eldritch powers but from respect for her judgment - ch 32 DoSF. He remains with the wagon on the other side of the portal while Alv crosses - ch 49 DoSF.		* '''[[Ollery\|Oathan]]''' - He will not fight Alv, not from fear of her eldritch powers but from respect for her judgment - ch 32 DoSF. He remains with the wagon on the other side of the portal while Alv crosses - ch 49 DoSF.

	- '''[[Yasnic\|Happy Jack]]''' - Colleagues at the Fever Lodge; Alv advocates for his escape plan over alternatives involving the Usrani or the Cotto - ch 17 DoSF. Jack refuses to cross the portal because his demon wife is Below; Alv steps through without him - ch 49 DoSF.		* '''[[Yasnic\|Happy Jack]]''' - Colleagues at the Fever Lodge; Alv advocates for his escape plan over alternatives involving the Usrani or the Cotto - ch 17 DoSF. Jack refuses to cross the portal because his demon wife is Below; Alv steps through without him - ch 49 DoSF.

	- '''[[Caeleen\|Caecelian 'the Viper']]''' - Alv sees Caecelian as a liability and suggests Jack might rein her in - ch 17 DoSF. She states she cannot affect Caecelian's "scales," acknowledging a shared quality of being "from outside the world" - ch 46 DoSF.		* '''[[Caeleen\|Caecelian 'the Viper']]''' - Alv sees Caecelian as a liability and suggests Jack might rein her in - ch 17 DoSF. She states she cannot affect Caecelian's "scales," acknowledging a shared quality of being "from outside the world" - ch 46 DoSF.

	- '''[[Divine City]]''' - Born there, she bore "the glittering marks on her inner arms," fell from grace, and was cast out in the annual culling of the "surplus" - ch 11 HoW. She was consigned to the Palleseen army to repay "a debt the Divine City incurred to the Pals" - ch 41. She reflects that the Divine City had "perfection, but didn't share" - ch 29.		* '''[[Divine City]]''' - Born there, she bore "the glittering marks on her inner arms," fell from grace, and was cast out in the annual culling of the "surplus" - ch 11 HoW. She was consigned to the Palleseen army to repay "a debt the Divine City incurred to the Pals" - ch 41. She reflects that the Divine City had "perfection, but didn't share" - ch 29.

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