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Julian Inch
Description Why, no one can remember much being different about Julian
after the war...except that forgivable, nasty ridge of a scar
on his right pinky, and his polite refusals to talk about fighting
the Germans. Well, he's certainly older now: that shadow of a
beard that never quite concedes to repeated shaving and his size,
which has increased modestly, filling out his clothes respectably
for a man in his twenties. Rough hands testify to his position
at the Tegate House, grooming to become head gardener, if nothing
intervenes. His black hair runs rampant and wavy, usually with
a cap jammed over it for control. His brown eyes are slightly
close set and rendered unremarkable underneath the wild brush
of his thick eyebrows. A small hunch to the top of his shoulders
makes him look always listening to whatever his body points to. Background Julian is the third born and the second surviving child
of the ill-timed, ill-founded, and generally ill marriage of
the former Eva Julian and the forever Talek Inch. The marriage
was the result of a supposedly secret engagement and hurried
ceremony (rumored to be the work of Julian's 'magical' aunt),
seven months before the birth of Julian's elder sister, Mary.
Talek, to no one's surprise but the young, smitten Eva's, became
a philanderer to beat all. Eva became bitter. Occasionally they
would manage to reconcile, the results being Perran (dead at
six months), Talan (dead at two years), and, lastly and finally,
Julian, nine years younger than Mary, his knight and protector
from the legendary arguments at the Inches. As soon as she could,
though, she left the house and married. ("Fled" is
the word in casual conversation.)
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