Li Jun and Zhang

Warehouse co-workers frozen out of a hallway between hornets and troglodytes for the Maestro's Death Watch (ch. 42), with Li Jun's sister Li Na and their manager left in the scene. Told to spend two teleport points on whoever they want saved, Li Jun says 'We die together' and Zhang says save the Li siblings; Carl's whispered plan — run through the lizards, leave the sword — gets all four out. They wave at Frank and Maggie before the audience can see them.

Li Jun is ninth on the leaderboard as a Street Monk, level 25; Carl is glad (epilogue).

Li Jun a Street Monk, ninth then off the list (ch. 3, ch. 13); trapped with a thousand at Vermillion 101 and freed by a train with Katia on its nose (ch. 21, ch. 22); comes to pay his respects and learns to drive it to station 36 (ch. 24). Zhang, an Earth Mover in black-and-gold armour, spends his shrinking wand's last charge on a cart (ch. 31) and drives the portal onto a god's vessel with a second to spare (ch. 32, ch. 33). Zhang is in love with Li Jun's sister Li Na, Elle reports, and Li Jun does not know (ch. 27).

In another bubble, at their last castle, underwater by the end as the waterline rose all floor; their popped bubble's water kills crawlers in the Lacuna (ch. 33). Li Jun and his sister stay to watch a tentacle god for Carl, see Agatha go down the stairs, and are told to look the party up in the guild system (ch. 20, ch. 33).

Chris's travelling companions (ch. 36); Li Jun had secretly been a vampire, told only his sister and Zhang, and is cured by Miriam's death (ch. 50). Zhang stretches the sleeping guards' timers to ten minutes (ch. 62); jugglers at the talent show (ch. 64, ch. 73). Li Jun is shell-shocked after his sister and Katia come back from Eva (ch. 77).

Li Jun with two new skulls, bringing Lucia Mar's gift and her threat (ch. 63); a backflip against his own cousin's card (ch. 67); his eye eaten by Carl's hand (ch. 71). Zhang borrows the shrink wand to bring down a church (ch. 64, ch. 72).

Li Jun's Walk on Air turns up on Carl's toe ring, '(already obtained)', and Carl's apology goes unanswered (ch. 4); he buys the skill back with a book (ch. 40). The brothers run splash towers in Shanty Town (ch. 18), trail wire through a temple and tie it round a black dragon's neck (ch. 50, ch. 51), stand frozen at Khepri's door (ch. 53), and come round the corner alive with Bianca and Annie — Zhang shaking his fist at the ceiling (ch. 55). Li Jun's new celestial eye slows time (ch. 57); he takes speaker eleven on a cart to lead Harpocrates away from Donut and dies: 'I love you with the moon and the sun and all the stars in the sky' (ch. 68). In the roots of a dead changeling he thanks Carl for more time with his sister and his best friend, and the same words arrive as a message from a deceased crawler (ch. 68). Zhang: 'Jun was always afraid he wouldn't do anything important […] it makes me proud to have you as a friend' (ch. 77). He goes into the stairwell alone (ch. 86).

Zhang rides an octopus behind Li Na, whom he cannot stop and will not leave (ch. 15, ch. 17). After her dread he throws his target cape on the table and plans to kill their mount so the system kills them both — 'I promised him I’d watch over her' (ch. 54). He presses the button that sends her out in the cleaner bot (ch. 61), rides with Bodi (ch. 62), and goes to the Cabaret himself: 'You only made me ‘Colonel.’' (ch. 71).