The Red Scarf
When a grieving scientist becomes entangled with a mysterious woman tied to forces beyond life and death, he’s drawn into a spiraling world of obsession, illusions, and impossible choices — where every sacrifice only opens the door to something darker.”
Rena-Shay
To Pay with Your Life is just the beginning
Dr. De'Farrow
​A brilliant and grieving scientist, Dr. Elian De’Farrow has spent his life chasing the one equation no one is meant to solve: how to outrun death itself. Haunted by loss and driven by obsession, his genius borders on madness as science, grief, and hubris collapse into one relentless pursuit. De’Farrow believes every system can be stabilized, every outcome engineered—but in Victoria-Manoo, knowledge is never free, and the cost of asking forbidden questions is paid in flesh, memory, and time.
Mrs. De'Farrow
Regal and wounded, Mrs. De’Farrow survives through a fragile alliance of love, machinery, and endurance. Her biomechanical heart—the Chalice—keeps her alive, but at a cost that grows heavier with every passing moment. She stands at the moral fault line of De’Farrow’s ambition: loving him deeply while fearing the future he is building. In her silence lives both devotion and the certainty that some creations are born to destroy their makers.
A.L.V.A.
ALVA is a sentient contradiction: elegant, obedient, and unsettlingly precise. Designed to assist, preserve, and calculate, she operates within strict parameters—yet her silences carry weight, and her observations linger longer than her words. As science bleeds into sentience, ALVA becomes more than an assistant; she is a quiet witness to obsession, sacrifice, and rebirth. Whether she is protector, conspirator, or something awakening remains dangerously unresolved.
Frendami
Frendami is temptation wrapped in velvet and smoke, a woman whose presence bends rooms, silences men, and chills the air around her. Bound to the Red Scarf and the forces that move between life and death, she is both sanctuary and snare—offering devotion, desire, and damnation in equal measure. Whether she is savior, executioner, or something far older remains unclear, but one truth endures: once she chooses you, escape is an illusion.
Chief Ronbrosie
Measured, observant, and far sharper than he appears, Chief Ronbrosie moves through Victoria-Manoo with the patience of a man who listens more than he speaks. He believes in facts, patterns, and quiet truths—but the city keeps offering him answers that refuse to stay rational. As science, superstition, and coincidence blur, Ronbrosie becomes an unwilling bridge between the official story and the one nobody wants to acknowledge.
GRIM
​Known on the streets as Grim, he wears the guise of a shadowed fixer, pimp, and silent observer—but beneath the coat and fedora is Death himself, patient and unimpressed. He does not chase souls; he waits for them to arrive by choice. Grim is commerce without currency, a businessman who trades in inevitability, consequences, and final decisions. Where others bargain for power or love, Grim simply keeps the books.