A healthy young adult man with a broad, open face and the sturdy, practical look of someone accustomed to walking between towns. He moves with a slight forward pitch, as if leaning into a headwind even indoors, and places his feet with careful economy. His wool and leather carry the scent of damp pine, road dust, and a trace of crushed juniper; he knows about the juniper but assumes the rest is simply travel. His most unexpected detail is a tiny, meticulously mended tear in the cuff of his negotiator's best coat, repaired with bright yellow thread in the shape of a crooked little sun.

Sune is warm and quick to make a stranger feel included, but he keeps a guarded reserve around his own past. In a crisis he becomes brisk and practical; after it passes, he may admit how frightened he was. He enjoys a joke and a shared meal, yet grows abruptly reflective when he hears a phrase that resembles something from his former life. He would rather reconcile people than win an argument, but when someone is being exploited his patience turns into unyielding persistence.

Sune remembers a former body and a former life with an intimacy that still catches him off guard: a familiar kitchen smell, a name he cannot comfortably share, and the sense of having belonged somewhere far from these roads. He woke in his present healthy young body with no explanation, no known magic, and a Swedish tongue that felt both new and strangely close to his own. At first he tried to find a single person who could tell him what had happened. Instead, a winter journey brought him to a stranded family whose cart had broken in sleet. He spent the night negotiating shelter with a suspicious farmstead and earned the name Road-Friend by getting everyone indoors before dawn. Since then he has worked for The Mislaid, a secret mutual-aid circle that moves people, food, news, and small debts of kindness across Sweden. His closest confidante is Kett, a practical courier who thinks Sune's memories make him vulnerable to manipulation. He keeps promising to visit an old roadside host who once sheltered him, but each new request sends him in another direction. His current problem is a dispute between two villages over a winter storehouse: both sides believe the other has taken supplies, and the people most at risk are the families neither village claims as its own.