Editing List of Sargent Hall Tenants (section)

== Curran ==
A decade ago he got a wad of money from a mysterious source and years later has had to deal with the fallout.<ref>"[Mr. Prey]?” Avery asked.<br><br>“The way he tells it, he bumped into a guy on the street, the guy dropped something.  He returned it, and got an envelope in exchange.  Money.  The person giving him the money freaked out when he opened the envelope to check, didn’t let him return it, then walked away.”<br><br>“How much?” Verona asked.<br><br>“A lot.  Enough that it was weird.  Ten years passed, nothing came of it, he nearly forgot about it, until a very pretty French woman with two very ugly French men came knocking.  They want what they’re owed, they tell him, and every time they catch up with him, they try to impress on him just how much they want it, before they drop him off at some random point unknown, bleeding, bruised, burned, electrocuted. Or he’s unscathed, but they burn his apartment building down.  Then the cat and mouse game begins anew.”<br><br>“I’m trying to think of what that would even be,” Lucy said.<br><br>“No idea.  He stole some money, tried to refuse it, but they don’t want the money back.  Even with interest.  They want what they paid for ten years ago.  Whenever he asks, they speak in metaphor only, or in French, or both.”<br><br>“Do you know?” Avery asked.  “What the metaphors were?”<br><br>Shellie shook her head.  “I didn’t have French class as a kid, and I kind of didn’t care.  We run into one another when I’ve finished a shift.  I finish my day as he’s starting his.  So long as he stays near the apartment building, they only watch from across the street.  The original three expanded to something like twenty.  Sometimes he’ll slip me five bucks to distract someone specific and let him by.”<br><br>“I’m thinking of [[the Wolf]],” Avery said, leaning back and looking at Verona and Lucy.  “I feel like that’s sort of what she’d be like, given the chance.”<br><br>''If she were free?''<br><br>Just picking randoms to terrorize?<br><br>“If that’s true, what does it mean?” Lucy asked.  “In terms of deciphering his situation?”<br><br>“Could mean they don’t want any specific item or person.  Maybe they want the chase, the hunt. They paid so they’d have the justification to hunt him.”<br><br>“They don’t, though,” Lucy said. “Maybe if someone with enough authority told them…”<br><br>“I wouldn’t want to be the one to try,” Shellie said.  “They’re frustrated he’s so hard to get to, these days.  Kind of like certain school staff, who were pretty eager for someone to give them a reason.”<br>[...]<br>We’ll have to make it safe for Curran, the guy with the mob after him. Or whatever it is.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/12 Excerpt] from [[Vanishing Points 8.2]]</ref> Hunted by a growing group of inscrutable Others after being tricked into accepting "payment" for something one of them dropped on the street. They don't want the money - they want the item he "sold", or more likely, they pretend to as an excuse to abuse him. This group can't enter Sargent Hall, however. Among the dissatisfied tenants who went to the [[BHI]] to confront Bristow.