VIVIENNE

Vivienne is easy to like. That is the first thing people notice about her, and usually the last thing they get right.
She lives quietly now, in a life so carefully arranged it looks like it happened by accident. She remembers birthdays. She brings the good wine. She listens in a way that makes people feel, for once, truly seen. Everyone who meets her comes away certain they have finally met someone real.
Then a knock comes. A face from somewhere she thought she had closed for good, a question she has spent years making sure no one would ever think to ask. And the quiet life begins to come apart one careful thread at a time.
You will think you understand the story. You will be sure of it. You will pick a side, decide who has to fall and who deserves to be left standing. And as the story unravels, you will feel that certainty slip, quietly, without ever quite noticing the moment it left your hands.

Long live the game.