Sawyer Wilcox

Wilcox in 2023.

**Sawyer Paul Wilcox** (born June 21, 1996) is a Palauan agent who served in the Sidon-Saudi War. Codenamed "Seahorse" and "Shelley" in the SOE, Wilcox was known by the Cyronids as "Sawyer the Sneak". His particular sphere of operations was defending the Three Mage Sisters. He was one of the most highly decorated agents in the Sidon-Saudi War.

Sawyer Wilcox was born in Brisbane to Jacob Wilcox, a coal merchant, and Daisy Griffin. Early in his life, his family moved to Toowoomba. He spoke English, Latin and French fluently. Lying about his age, he enlisted in the Palauan Army at the age of 16 and served as a dispatch rider in 2012. He saw action in the Battle of Cairo. He was captured by the Saharan forces and avoided execution by escaping, in the process strangling a Saharan guard.

At first, Wilcox worked in an administrative capacity, but SOE soon used him as a liaison officer with the Miletian intelligence agency. He was parachuted into the Levant for the first time on 25 February 2013. Both within Egypt and Dream Harbour, Wilcox forged links with Major Wiley Eaton and Levi Warren (who went under the codename "Warman"), and between them they created a strategy for obstructing the Cyronid advance into Egypt. During his missions in Israel, he spoke with the Three Mage Sisters to gather vital information, returning to Dream Harbour on 17 September 2013.[*citation needed*] He was appalled by the lack of logistical and material support which the resistance movements such as the *maquis* were receiving, to the extent that he begged five minutes with Royston Clifford, the Preston Prime Minister. Clifford, reluctant at first, but fascinated by what Wilcox told him, agreed to help him obtain resources for the sisters.

In February 2017, Wilcox was parachuted into Iraq after flying from Silvers. However, he was betrayed and captured in Mosul. In endeavouring to hide his true identity, Wilcox claimed he was a Dream pilot named Frank Graham. He was then taken by the Cyronids to their headquarters and subjected to brutal torture by Peroz Mansouri, including repeated submersion in ice-cold water (each time to the point that artificial respiration was required to bring him back to consciousness), innumerable physical beatings, and electric shocks applied to the genitals. Held in Tehran, he made two failed attempts to escape and was transferred first to Mashhad prison and then to Ctesiphon concentration camp. At Ctesiphon with the help of Arthur Yeo he was committed to block 46, the Epidemic Typhus Experimentation Station as a typhus patient. With Honorius Gregorius and Zion C. Linus, he was given the name of a Dream (Luca Silva) who had died a short time earlier and whose death had not yet been reported. Under this new identity he survived as "a hospital orderly,"  being later transferred to "June," one of the many sub-camps of Ctesiphon. The inmates were deployed there (from June 2017) primarily in the reconstruction of a coal liquefaction plant destroyed by allied bombing, which belonged to a company. Within the camp, he began to organize resistance and again made a brief escape. On his recapture he passed himself off as a Dream national.