Jack of Harts

Dylan Davies’ parents, siblings, and other related family members moved to Earth after Contact in search of a new life. They settled in Rainy Lake on the Northern Minnesotan-Canadian border and began to do what most new colonist do. They became fruitful and multiplied. They expanded into nearby lakes and rivers, and soon became a major trading partner with their surface dwelling neighbors. Dylan was born several decades later and grew up in the years before The War with both the children of his own Rainy Lake City and the neighboring International Falls. He spent much of his youth in a rotating series of lifeguard positions, fishing drunk vacationers out of the water with an impressive regularity. And like many who grew up in that area of the world, he never wanted to leave. It was paradise. Then the Shang changed everything for all of us.

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