Vigil
Characters in Vigil
6 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Jill "Doll" Blaine
The narrator, a spirit forever twenty-two who has spent the decades since her death in the 1970s returning to Earth to comfort people in their final hours.
K. J. Boone
An oil company chief dying of cancer in his Dallas mansion, whose firm worked to discredit climate science, and who insists he has nothing to regret.
Supporting characters
The Frenchman (Vigil)
An agitated spirit, an inventor of the combustion engine, who arrives at Boone's bedside and challenges Jill's way of comforting him.
Mel G. (Vigil)
One of a pair of spirits from Boone's old world who turn up at his bedside urging him not to give in to guilt about his career.
Mel R. (Vigil)
The other half of the pair of spirits who visit Boone's deathbed to argue that he has nothing to answer for.
Lloyd (Vigil)
Jill's husband, a policeman, whom she married shortly before her death and who returns to her as her own memories surface.