A lean blunt-featured man who carries the permanent tilt of someone always appraising a room. His face is an uneven map of pale scars and faint burn marks, as if he once survived a fire that took more than it should. He wears his hair close-cropped at the temples with a long, grease-dark ponytail at the back that he tucks through the collar of his coat. He moves like a predator that has practiced politeness, gliding rather than striding, and he has a habit of tilting his head just so when listening, which unnerves polite company. Unexpectedly, he keeps a small carved wooden toy soldier folded in a pocket of his waistcoat and takes it out to roll between his fingers whenever he is calculating a debt; the childishness contradicts his otherwise hard, businesslike presence.