Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
The Infiltrator
The Scree: brain parasites that take a living body in a few days and lock the host inside to watch, cousins of the Valtay's Gondii and the Intellect Hunters. Maggie's race, worn inside Chris since the third floor; pulled out through his skull by a phased hand, blown out of Carl's neck by a healing potion, and chewed by a dinosaur.
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Progression
Mordecai's taxonomy (ch. 5); the diagnosis in the street (ch. 14); 'Enslaved' in a quest chat (ch. 29); pulled out by hand and eaten (ch. 34).