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Daniel bar Jamin: an eighteen-year-old escaped slave living in the hills above Galilee.
Joel bar Hezron: also eighteen, son of a rabbi.
Malthace (also called “Thacia” or “Thace”): Joel’s twin sister.
Leah: Daniel’s fifteen-year-old sister, who seems to have lost her mind.
Grandmother: Daniel and Leah’s grandmother, to whom the children were entrusted after being orphaned.
Amalek: the blacksmith to whom Daniel had been sold.
Simon the Zealot: a kind man who had also been enslaved to Amalek....
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