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The leader of the Pheasants is Gene. The quarters where the first group of pheasants live are on the second floor, immediately after the dining hall and the director's office. Their territory occupies two rooms. They are always tidy—towels on the headboards, napkins on the pillows. Posters are hung everywhere, encouraging cleanliness and helping each other. There's also a television in the bedroom, which remains on until lights out (9 p.m.). Keith is the only walking Pheasant; the other pheasants are not walking, but are confined to wheelchairs. Like all pheasants, Gene wears a clean shirt and soft leather moccasins. He also wears glasses with a cord. Like all pheasants, he is meticulous and enjoys organizing meetings. Pheasant inhabitants: Genie, Professor, Kusaka, Gul, Crybaby, Sip, Hamster, Whale, Snotlout, Pie, Khlyup, Pisun, Top, triplets, as the Smoker said, with pig names: Nif, Nuf, Naf. "Ghoul" - A fair-haired boy with horse teeth and a pale face. Judging by his tedious speech, he has a boring personality. His words are colorless and dry, making him difficult to listen to. He is embarrassed to speak to the accused, so he looks at his desk. He has a habit of adjusting his bangs with a saliva-moistened finger. Nif, Nuf, and Naf are kind and shy, but they follow the lead of the pheasant society, which forces them to act as society pleases. In particular, the Smoking Man notes that the brothers were nicer to him at first after arriving in the House, and their relationship could be called friendly, but their speech at the meeting comes as a surprise to him. Keith - Like all pheasants, Keith wears a clean shirt and soft leather moccasins. Judging by his nickname, Long Keith, he is quite tall. During the assembly, Keith managed to make at least two mistakes in every word while standing at the board, so he could easily be called illiterate. He could barely write.

Larry is a resident of the fourth. A nervous individual who takes out all his problems on the unfortunate Pheasants in the hallway and dining room, Larry is a Bandarlog of the fourth. Despite his outward sternness and his attacks on the residents of the first, he is naive and kind. He loves his pack, lives by the laws of the House, and respects them. He is very thin, and hides this thinness under a broad-shouldered leather jacket. He wears heavy hobnailed boots—an invariable attribute of the dens. He lives in the fourth.

The Wolf is a resident of the fourth. He sleepwalks and can wander off and get lost. He is power-hungry, yet very kind and cunning, earning respect. He has a complex character and is good friends with everyone in the fourth. He is a thin, short, and very pale young man. He is distinguished by sharp, wolfish features and straight black hair with a white tuft in his bangs. He plays the guitar and smokes cigarettes.

Ralph is the teacher of the fourth room - the pack. Like no other teacher, he understands the students well and therefore is not afraid that he will be stabbed with a knife at night.

He tried his best to understand his students and their fear of leaving school, and so he did everything he could to ensure that his children were treated fairly, according to the laws of the House. The Vulture was his liaison and informant, the one who kept him updated on the latest news. When the mentor returned to the house, the man was missing two fingers on his left hand, one of which was the little finger. He wears gloves so that they do not attract attention. During working hours, it is customary to wear a formal uniform - shirt, trousers, jacket, shoes - all black. Although sometimes he appears in a T-shirt, jeans and sneakers. Lord thinks Ralph has the eyes of a "real dangerous psychopath." Director Shark notes that Ralph looks "youthful." about 30 years

The Vulture is the leader of the birds living in the third room. He always carries a bunch of keys and master keys with him, and is always in mourning. There is no room for new flowers in his room. He can open any door and imitate anyone's handwriting. The shadow of his dead brother is always next to him, which is why no one approaches him. He is thin and tall. He has long blond hair. He has yellow, round, fixed eyes and a hooked nose. He wears rings on his fingers, numerous earrings, and his nails are painted black. He wears black eyeliner and eye makeup. Since his brother's death, he has been in mourning - he dresses all in black. He limps on his right leg, which he received when the Siamese were separated. He walks with a cane. The blind man noted that the Vulture smells of acetone and mint gum. He always carries a bunch of keys and master keys with him. Sometimes his hair is tightly braided.

Voice - hoarse tenor. 17 years old

"Red" is the leader of the rats who live in the second room, along with "Red." He's brash and shameless, like all rats. He's afraid of blue bags. He has back problems, which is why he wears a plaster cast. It's also believed that if Red appears to someone in a dream, that person will soon die. He has a red crew cut, a rose tattoo on his left cheek, and always wears green glasses. His eyes are chocolate brown, but he doesn't like to show them because they make him look innocent, which doesn't fit with the image of the leader of the Rats. He has a tattoo of Anubis on his left chest. He can be vulgar at times.

Red puts on his glasses, and the angel disappears. What remains is a neurotic and a pervert, who, while he may actually be kind, rarely shows it. 17 years old

Tabaki is a member of the fourth. Small and skinny. He has dark, but not black, shaggy hair ("there were no brunettes among the wheelchair users"). He is the keeper of the House's traditions, an expert on its history. Tabaki looks at least fourteen years old. True, only from a distance. Up close, he looks thirty. His fingers are thin, like spider legs. 16 years old

He loves wearing brightly colored clothes, constantly carries various small bottles and jars for things he needs and doesn't, and adores badges, beads, and anything that rattles, glitters, or could be considered jewelry. His wheelchair is also adorned with trinkets. Tabaka knows the answer to any question and willingly shares his knowledge, but not everyone listens to him properly. Tabaka loves his roommates and believes in enlightening them about what they don't know. For example, he tried very hard to answer all the questions the Cigarette-Smoking Man had, but he always thought Tabaka was lying and making up nonsense. The Blind Man and the Sphinx also always preferred to turn to the Jackal when someone needed an explanation, although the Blind Man still tried to limit the number of words or sentences he used to tell stories so that they wouldn't drag on too long. Tabaqui composes songs about home, weaves beads from nutshells, and loves "exchange" days, when he can add something very interesting to his collection. He hates watches; it's because of him that there are no watches in the fourth room; he can literally feel them, they make him sick.

The fourth group is perhaps the most diverse, lacking an "animal" name. Each member is unique, unusual, and unlike any other. They share no common interests or mindset. It's hard to find so many different people gathered in one place, but each one loves their comrades, and they all form a large family, with the Blind likely the father and the Sphinx, judging by Jackal's reasoning, the caring mother. This applies not only to the fourth group, but to the entire House. The leader of the fourth group is the Blind. The others simply need to know how the Blind will react to maintain order within the group. This is precisely why the Blind rarely resolves minor conflicts—his groupmates are well aware that he might not like it, and they try not to let things escalate to his intervention. The fourth one's mentor is Ralph. The quarters occupied by the students of Room Four are a small room with a hallway. The walls are hung with various household items, bunches of dried plants, posters, and paintings. The ceiling is also not bare. However, despite all this variety, clocks and calendars are impossible to find in Room Four. In the center of the room stands a large central bed, made up of four regular beds. Smoking Man, Lord, Tobacco, and Sphinx sleep here. Due to the students' physical disabilities, as well as Jackal's habit of building "nests" out of blankets, the bed is barely spacious. People sleep on it, eat lunch, and pass through it to other ends of the room. The light in Room Four is always on, as is the tape recorder.

At first glance, the Fourth Room might seem terribly uninviting, but its inhabitants don't think so. The fourth room is home to: the Sphinx, the Black One, the Jackal of Tobacco, Larry, the Macedonian, the Blind One, the Smoker, the Lord, and the Wolf.

Black is the "black sheep" of the Fourth. He is alienated from the traditions and concepts of the House, despite living there for a long time; he does not understand the fear of his colleagues from the Outside. Black is a gloomy guy with a light-blond crew cut. He has a very menacing appearance and has remained so since childhood, made even more impressive by the exercise equipment. Black's biceps are visible under his T-shirt. He is blue-eyed and nearsighted, but does not wear glasses. Black is tall because when he gets up from the table in the Coffee Pot, he touches a Chinese lantern, and Jackal Tabaqui calls it a "tower." Black practically does not react to anything. According to Tabaqui, even a blind person is alive compared to him. An absolute phlegmatic, although he can sometimes be kind, very rarely, he shows no kindness to any of the Fourth. No one ever sits on his bed. 17 years old

Sphinx is a tall, athletic, armless man, the Fourth's caring mother. He's quite an authority figure in the House—according to the Smoker, he ranks second only to the Blind Man in importance. In the past, he was nicknamed "Grasshopper." Green-eyed and beardless, he's tall and wears dentures, which he calls a rake. Bald, he looks older than his years. Sensitive and understanding, he's a good listener, often seems indifferent, but will help in any way he can. He's the Blind Man's best friend. 17 years old

Blind is the leader of the fourth squad and the master of the House. He is unkempt. Blind by nature, but agile and extremely dangerous in one-on-one combat. Like all the others, he has a difficult life and a difficult entry into adolescence. He is short, thin, and very pale, with long black hair that he periodically brushes back over his face. He has colorless (silver) eyes and very long, nimble fingers. He wears sweaters (jumpers)—usually someone else's—and jeans with holes in the knees. He goes barefoot, which is why his feet are always dirty. It is sometimes very difficult to determine his age by his appearance. It is not known for certain where Blind grew up. However, from his own memories, it is clear that he spent his childhood in an institution where children with disabilities were raised. Over time, conflicts began to arise between them, escalating into fights. The blind man didn't know what "seeing" meant, but he quickly realized that those who could do so hit harder and win fights. It was then that he began to search for his strengths and found them in calm and a cool head. People began to fear him. 16 years old

Macedonian is a member of the fourth. One of the most mysterious inhabitants of the House and, at the same time, one of the most "local," according to the Jackal. Macedonian possesses magic, the limits of which are not fully understood. He wards off bad dreams, controls surrounding objects, and, if he so desires, can cause serious harm. However, he rarely does so. He has brown hair and freckles. His eyes are the color of tea, flecked with flecks. He was of a thin build, with long, bitten fingers and protruding front teeth. He wore a worn gray sweater, concealing his hands. His voice is quiet, like the rustle of rain. Macedonian - the Red Dragon (as the Jackal sometimes calls him) is modest and shy. He prefers to keep a low profile, constantly helping others quietly. 16 years old

Lord can move quickly and gracefully, crawling without a wheelchair. He entered the House only three years before his release and, by the time the action began, already had the maximum number of warnings on his record—three. This indicates he has mental health issues. As a result, he is short-tempered and irritable. Lord uses a wheelchair, and like Blind, he prefers the "insides" of the House to reality. He has long, honey-colored hair, pale skin, and gray eyes. The Cigarette Smoking Man compares him to a young Bowie and the Elf King. However, despite his perfect appearance, Lord doesn't consider himself handsome and studiously avoids mirrors. He is a perfectionist and, unlike Tabaqui, doesn't tolerate dirty shirts or pillowcases and is always dressed to the nines. He is called the "dragon" of the fourth, due to his cold, detached gaze and majestic, intimidating beauty. 16 years old

The Smoker is a "werewolf pheasant" who settled in the fourth after a conflict with the members of the first group and is its most "normal" inhabitant. Everything that happened in the House seemed like a game to the Smoker, a try-on of masks and roles that everyone in this place constantly played. He thought that no one understood him, and all the people around him were simply going crazy with boredom and trying to somehow have fun. The House is a game, and the rules here are much more cruel than he could imagine. He found a like-minded person in the person of Black, who always stood out from his peers and did not succumb to what looked like madness in the eyes of the Smoker. The Sphinx was also extremely important to the Smoker, who tried her best to teach him to listen to the House, to understand it, to ask the right questions and to see what he could not see. The Sphinx was also his godfather. Probably dark brown hair (since there were no brunettes among wheelchair users), chubby cheeks with fuzz; thin, but compared to the Blind Man (as the Smoking Man himself thinks), he feels cheerful. Wheelchair user. At the time of writing the first volume, the Smoking Man was not even seventeen years old, he was considered a minor. Many people get bored because of constant questions and the fact that they understand absolutely nothing. 16 years old

Gorbach is one of the members of the Fourth. He is a bit of a musician, a bit of a poet, who leaves his poems on the walls above his bed; he loves animals more than people, collecting cutlets from the canteen for stray dogs, who follow him in whole packs. He is kind. Gorbach is a man full of doubts and fears, but he never shows them to people; he hates conflicts and loves his comrades too much to allow them to quarrel. He has six fingers and a large mouth, his eyebrows meet at the bridge of his nose, and his black hair is always tousled, reminiscent of a crow's nest. He dresses sloppily, goes a long time without changing his socks, and is embarrassed by the acne on his nose. In the House, people like him are called angels because of the hump that, under their clothes, looks like folded wings. 16 years old

The Pheasants are the first group. They are Shark's pets. They are obsessed with cleanliness and order, imposing their ideas on any available mind. Although they are the director's favorite group, they are not respected by the other flocks. The Logs especially despise them.

Rats are the second group. They are loud and flamboyant, literally. They are distinguished from the others by their disregard for cleanliness, aggressiveness, and informal clothing. The leader is Red.

Birds are the third group. They are in perpetual mourning after the death of the Shadow. They are characterized by a depressive state, as well as an incomprehensible love of houseplants. The leader is the Vulture.

The Fourth is the fourth group. They are the only ones without an animal name. The small size of the group is compensated for by the names of its members. Almost all of them are respected people in the House. It is in the Fourth House that the leader of the entire House, the Blind One, resides. The Fourth is home to: the Sphinx, the Black One, the Jackal Tabaki, the Macedonian, the Blind One, and the Smoker.

The Bandar-logs are the fifth group. They are one of the packs at the boarding school, serving as the "news service." They wear black jackets and hobnailed boots, collect rumors and gossip, and are the first to know all the news, often clashing with the Pheasants. The leader of this group is Lary.

The Dogs are the sixth group. They dress as flamboyantly as the Rats, but with a distinct sense of style. Their room is never quiet. The leader is Pompey, who later became Black.

The director's nickname is Shark. Shark is described as dry, spotted and shaggy, resembling a lichen-covered tree stump. His eyebrows, also spotted, grey and shaggy, hang like dirty icicles over his eyes. Shark has a slanted mouth and eyes looking in different directions. Gives the impression of an inconspicuous uncle. Has a creaky voice. An elderly man. Lazy, pessimistic, proud. He considers himself a leader, although his opinion depends on third parties in many ways, and does not have much authority or significance: his office is "not the center of the house, not the place where everything converges and from where everything flows, but just a guardhouse." Moralizer, however, does not hesitate to smoke in the presence of students. Presumably, he has a bad memory, because he likes to hang notes around his office. Likes to take petty revenge. about 60 years old