Character · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

Juice Box

The Toe's one changeling prostitute in Hump Town — a Ratkin Brood Mother, a Mouser Dame, a bald eighteen-year-old, whatever is asked — who sells information for a gold coin, wrangles forty children through a bombing, and turns out to be Henrik's sister, the keeper of her people's story, and a woman who dreams she was once a schoolteacher, a dream Louis reads as a memory of an earlier crawl. The sixth floor is her people's ancient home.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Hump Town
• Chapter 5 — Rapid Detox
• Chapter 8 — A yam from the pacifists
• Chapter 10 — Squeeze out the Juice Box
• Chapter 11 — The Vahana
• Chapter 12 — Dolores Doesn't Splat
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 14 — Maggie
• Chapter 15 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 20 — Gwendolyn Duet
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 25 — The Akula
• Chapter 27 — Leatherface
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Arc

The prostitute

The Toe's one changeling, pouting after the party declines her (ch. 1); a Ratkin Brood Mother Attendant, a Mouser Dame, Chuck E. Cheese in drag, whatever Louis describes, who catches a coin without turning her head and, Mordecai warns, could be a gorgon, a rocksling and a forge ogre 'before you could say “Ouch.”' (ch. 5). She sells Ruckus's story for a gold coin (ch. 8) and hands out Capri Suns to forty children in a shelter (ch. 10).

The sister

Henrik's sister, and not a Principal: her people are not from here, their bodies never finished adapting, one birth in four is sick and sterile, the Hunting Grounds are their ancient home (ch. 10), and the Gate is no myth (ch. 15). She takes Bonnie's hand as a gnome woman (ch. 17), warns Carl he is like her brother (ch. 33), and dreams of being a schoolteacher whose pupils were killed, which Louis takes for a memory of her last time in the dungeon (ch. 28). She agrees to carry the winding box through a gate for a promise that Carl will try to bring her people down every floor; she carries a fake, is sent to Larracos as a bird to tell the survivors what they are, kisses Carl's cheek, and says she will marry Louis (ch. 34).