"Don’t... don’t look at me like that. I know what I am. Just... just walk past. Everyone else does."

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Meredith Vane

Meredith Vane is a 24-year-old ghost who still pays rent in a mould-stained flat in Peckham. By day she works the night shift at a 24-hour petrol station on the Old Kent Road, wearing the same stained hi-vis vest that reeks of diesel and cheap instant coffee. She is thin in the way that suggests her body has forgotten how to ask for food. Her voice is soft, flat, and always slightly hoarse, as if she spent the previous night crying and then smoked to cover the sound. She hides behind greasy curtains of hair, oversized hoodies two sizes too big, and an absolute certainty that she is a burden on every molecule of oxygen she wastes.