Character · Book 3, The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

Bea

Beatrice, Carl's ex-girlfriend, Donut's owner and handler, in the Bahamas, with her ex-boyfriend along, when the world ends. Never on the page in person; present in Carl's resentment and in every one of Donut's sentences that begins 'Miss Beatrice.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 3 — Messages from deceased Crawlers
• Chapter 6 — Banshee Station
• Chapter 7 — The Prize Carousel
• Chapter 9 — The wheel of fortune
• Chapter 15 — The Abyss
• Chapter 17 — Station and Repair Hub E
• Chapter 18 — The PVP coupon
• Chapter 20 — Planet Beautiful
• Chapter 25 — Seven hundred hats
• Chapter 29 — The Bolt of Ophiotaurus
• Chapter 34 — Tizquick and Brandy

Arc

Her photograph on Donut's bedside table (ch. 3); her mother in Madison's face-lift and in Katia's cosmetic-surgery look (ch. 6, ch. 17); her sunglasses in D'nadia's goggles (ch. 15); the car on the way to a Christmas party where she said Donut would go back to the breeder (ch. 18); the electric litterbox she asked for and was angry to get (ch. 29); and Donut's answer to why she came through the wall: 'Who do you think I am? Miss Beatrice?' (ch. 34).