Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
Ferdinand
Someone Donut loved from the moment she first saw him, whom she invokes on her deathbed after the Juicer and in her drunken confession under the Krakaren, and ranks above Carl. Carl asks, 'Who the hell is Ferdinand?' She will not say.
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The name the Veriluxx robot of Donut says when it sniffs the air, before telling Mongo he is not Ferdinand (ch. 13). In the epilogue Bea scoops up a stray, sobbing, and calls him Ferdinand and an asshole: her neighbour's cat, Gravy Boat, who used to come to the window when Princess was in heat — an A-tier Walk-On target with Borant's bounty on him, tracked down by a hunter risking his own life, and Lexis shudders at what they will do to him (epilogue).