Nagy
Nagy is Yehya’s closest friend and the person who most consistently stays beside him.
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Spoiler-freeNagy is Yehya’s closest friend and the person who most consistently stays beside him. He helps maintain Yehya’s place in the queue, searches for documents, visits doctors, and tries to protect him from news that might worsen his condition. Nagy understands the Gate’s power more clearly than Yehya at times, but insight does not give him an easy way to resist it. He is involved in planning the secret operation. His fate after Tarek’s final decision is not stated.
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