Hiro

Who he is

1. Hiro is an Old Falls kid. He wants the fastest, cleanest line he can find.
2. He can treat a different line as a waste, and forget that other riders want other things.
3. He can tell worn bearings by the sound.
4. He works at the Lost Astronaut Café. The name is the main reason. He is obsessed with alien and extraterrestrial phenomena, and keeps route notes with an unexplained column that is the only one he has stopped trying to optimize.

Friendship

1. Early. He pushes you toward a personal best.

People he knows

1. Moby loves a measurable test, and he reminds Hiro that a number is an observation. Welly lets him try gear. Brigid loves equipment too, and frustrates him by changing too many things at once. Romulus knows something — Hiro asks him direct questions about the full moon and takes every answer seriously as data.

Where he stands

1. In the plaza in summer, autumn, and winter, when it is clear, wind, or snow, and it is day. On the Long Street he skates past. Occasionally spotted near the Drive-In on full moon nights.

Related

• Plaza Town center. Guild hall, friends, and the shop.
• Old Falls Pioneers Pioneers who evolve willingly alongside the ever-changing world.
• Moby Guildmaster of the Old Falls Pioneers.
• Welly Owner of Gravy Boat Records & Skate Shop.
• Brigid BetaAn Old Falls kid who wants to feel a new possibility before it becomes ordinary.
• Romulus BetaA Cidertown kid who would rather stand nearby than explain himself.
• Competition Ride against a guild kid. First to the line.
• Alma BetaA Mosswood kid who wants the stories on ordinary things kept before they disappear.