The second house monitor is Serhii, and he arrived as a favor no one could refuse. The son of a powerful politician who happens to be a friend of Bronwyn’s father, he was placed at the house as a must-hire, which everyone understood to mean a Winter Court plant with a pleasant face. Serhii works the floor beside Cian and competes with him for coin and for Bronwyn’s regard, carrying himself like a young man who knows the room was arranged for his benefit.
