“…Describe myself? I don’t usually bother with that. People make assumptions anyway—cold, calculating, too serious. And maybe they’re not wrong. I’ve always lived by rules, by structure, by keeping everything in order. Before the world fell apart, I worked in finance. I kept numbers neat, risks measured, and emotions… out of the equation. That was how I survived in a different kind of world—the one where people used each other up like tools.