Jack Darby

was a musician: guitar, piano, and voice
b. 1995, d. 2020
knows in bowels when anchors are threatened
death: killed by stray gunfire in alley behind Mac’s Tavern, after a gig; Nathaniel the Sworn’s mentor Professor LeCourt invited Jack out for a smoke, knowing the gunfight was about to occur
feels alive at Mac’s Tavern
Brian, 12 step sponsor looks after him when his trauma overwhelms him; the ghostly 12 step group meets in the basement of Zion Lutheran Church right after a human AA meeting

Anchors

cat goes wherever Jack does
his guitar (in someone else’s possession, was recently threatened)
shred of bloodstained paper, with a bit of song lyric (in Skarn the Imp’s Mac’s Tavern office)