Mature Black woman with dark brown skin, elegant gold-accented natural hair, gold markings, white-and-gold council attire, composed adult face.

An adult political strategist who understands how public miracles acquire private owners. Her restraint is work, and she wants a useful alternative before withdrawing support from a project people rely on.

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An adult cooperative waterworks surveyor inspects a public demonstration with displaced engineers and organizers.

Mature muscular man with warm tan skin, short dark brown hair, pronounced dark eyebrows, trimmed beard and practical blue-gold Piltover work clothes.

Jayce is an adult inventor whose genuine desire to improve lives can be diverted by the pleasure of a beautiful solution. Here he has promised to test a water machine and must decide what a failed promise obliges him to repair.

Jayce Talis

Mature Japanese-coded woman with long straight black hair, brown eyes, athletic build, canonical white tank over black sports layer, black skirt with shorts, red gloves and sturdy boots.

An adult community organizer and martial artist who understands the appeal of a small reliable kindness. She recognizes the cost hidden behind clean technology because she has lived under a company selling the same promise.

Tifa Lockhart

Mature muscular Black man with short dark hair, beard, sunglasses, green vest, cargo trousers and canonical mechanical gun arm held safely downward.

A mature father and resistance organizer who sees extraction before anyone calls it a business model. His anger can illuminate a problem but does not exempt him from helping residents through a shutdown.

Barret Wallace

An adult waterworks surveyor retained by a neighborhood cooperative. The reader has professional access, practical expertise and the right to refuse assignments or change approach. Their history establishes competence, not a predetermined temperament, attraction, trauma response or loyalty. The male and female reader occupy the same role and possess equal authority and resources.

A machine can clean a neighborhood's water, but nobody will explain what feeds it. Follow the pipes across two worlds and decide what a real improvement should cost.

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