Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The changelings

Shape-changers on Hump Street and in the bubbles — a school of principals, Svern's card, Henrik's confession — hunted for one creature, fed against Compression Sickness, promised a home on the sixth floor and a Gate they would not use; the survivors fly beside a house as geese to the Hunting Grounds. Carl's promise to bring them down every floor.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Hump Town
• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 5 — Rapid Detox
• Chapter 6 — City hall
• Chapter 7 — The frog con
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• 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 16 — Denise
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 21 — Ghazi
• Chapter 26 — Lusca
• Chapter 28 — Emberus
• Chapter 31 — Emberus, summoned
• Chapter 32 — Acolyte of Emberus
• Chapter 33 — Phase three
• Chapter 34 — Seeding the pond

Progression

Prostitutes changing shape on Hump Street (ch. 2); Mordecai's warning and Juice Box's viper-fast catch (ch. 5); Svern's card and Henrik's confession (ch. 6, ch. 10); heads that read hotter in Donut's sunglasses (ch. 10); one creature hunted, a food against Compression Sickness, a home on the sixth floor, a Gate they would not use (ch. 15); the principals vanished, assumed gone into the tomb, and six of them dead on a submarine's bridge (ch. 13, ch. 26); Juice Box remembering (ch. 28); every survivor, adults and children, flying beside a house as geese and going through a portal to the Hunting Grounds (ch. 33). Carl's promise to bring them down every floor.