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Ranette

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anti-kandra-bullet-for-waxForges, on overnight commission from Wax during the Bleeder crisis, a single bullet to his exact specification — half-powder, piercing, *forged not to shatter* — and delivers it in person to the governor's mansion rather than trust it to a messenger.MB2:SoS:Ch 19
jaxy-partnerRanette now lives in Elendel with her partner Jaxy; the two of them keep a standing dinner with Wayne at the Roughs-themed Drunken Spur and have been doing it for years. Ranette points out, with some pride, that Wayne has not hit on her once in all that time.MB2:TLM:Ch 14

MB2:AoL:Ch 14 Greets the visitors with a shotgun and a count to nine, accepts the aluminum revolver as a bribe to let them in, walks them through her gun-development line and her hazekiller rounds, and hands Wax Vindication on loan.
MB2:BoM:Ch 4 Catches Wayne on her doorstep with the notebook he had wedged into her door, reads his *thank you and goodbye*, lets him take her hand to kiss it, and tells him — sincerely — *thank you*. She has, Marasi mentioned, a girlfriend.
MB2:TLM:Ch 14 In slacks at the standing dinner at the Drunken Spur; tries comfort badly on purpose, then admits she is proud of Wayne — they have been doing these dinners for years and he has not hit on her once. Sets the conversation toward Allriandre and tells Jaxy on the way out: he is not as bad as she pretends, but not as good as you want to pretend either.
MB2:SoS:Ch 19 Comes in person to the mansion door with the bullet Wax commissioned overnight, threatens the butler with her pistol over *dust rat*, and warns Wayne that the streets outside are worse than any pre-lynching crowd she remembers from a Roughs town.

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