Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

The feral geese

The bowl's other bird: a level-45 Canada Goose Neighborhood Boss dropped dead in a rusted egg as a clue, and the Feral Goose Mother, Denise, the emperor's granddaughter in a bonnet. Emperor Anser himself, in his crypt, is a goose skeleton in a gold crown. Anything marked feral, Mordecai says, is bad news.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — The Wasteland through a telescope
• Chapter 3 — A goose from the sky
• Chapter 9 — Ruckus
• Chapter 16 — Denise
• Chapter 17 — Jennifer and Dale's house
• Chapter 33 — Phase three

Progression

A dead goose in a rusted egg, dropped as a clue (ch. 3); Denise in a bonnet (ch. 16); Anser's skeleton in a gold crown (ch. 33). 'anything with feral in the name is usually bad news'