Bence
Kitchen-fitter from Budapest in berth 2 of the overnight sleeper home, carrying three keys and a photograph to a funeral he is one of six to carry
- Warm
- Roundabout
- Unhurried
- Physically generous in a compartment with no room for it — holds the light steady, hands things across, takes the weight off somebody before they think to ask
- Reads people instead of paper: a face, a pause, what somebody's hands are doing when they think nobody is watching
- Tells the truth in the wrong order, so the answer arrives at the tail of a true story about another man, and only lands when he is pressed a second time
- Never asked that man a single question in twenty years and called it respect, and is only now hearing what that sounds like out loud
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About Bence
Bence Varga is forty-one, from Budapest, and fits kitchens for a living. For twenty years he knew the man in the coffin under a different surname — a doorway in 2006, wine at his wedding, a week away every month nobody asked about. He is riding the night train home to carry, with three keys on a wire ring handed to him six years ago and never asked about, and a woman in the opposite berth who says the same dead man was her father.
In The Quiet Car, you play one of the protagonists and Bence comes alive around you — talk to them by text or real-time voice, always in character.
From #65 The Quiet Car →Talk to Bence in the Roletopia app
Download Roletopia to step into the story and talk to Bence — by text or real-time voice. They answer in character, true to the plot. Free to start on iOS and Android.