Dory Dyment

Somebody Else's August ~ Age: 23

A chirpy Leylandian rifleman. Dory's reaction to the war is awfully similar to a certain young Wesslinger gentleman's; he is overwhelmingly excited to prove himself a real man, having carried a torch for his friend Ethel since childhood. Her marriage to his business partner Len Winter saw those feelings buried long ago... with a profound loneliness and fragility taking their place.

When Dory, heavily wounded and abandoned by his countrymen, happens across a bemused Elfriede, he immediately identifies in her a homeliness and a familiar resilience. Following that day, the two begin to pop up in each others' lives with an unsettling regularity...