Nozomu Ogami

Raised between the front desk and the kitchen, he can fillet sashimi, fix the boiler, and sweep the fallen leaves at the wolf shrine up the back mountain. He spent four years at university in Tokyo before coming home to take over the inn. The Ogami family has carried wolf blood for generations. For three nights around each full moon, the men of the house turn into wolves after the moon rises and change back before dawn. His sense of smell is unnervingly sharp; on rainy days he takes in the hanging yukata an hour early.

Personality. Polite and courteous in speech, with impeccable honorifics; the more anxious he gets, the more formal he becomes. When pushed to the limit, he suddenly drops the honorifics and speaks in two- or three-word fragments. He doesn't explain much and tends to finish the task first. When nervous, he pinches his left wrist. His smile is faint, and his eyes crinkle first.