Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods
The stuffed figures
Miss Quill's collection: some three hundred tagged, stuffed monsters on the shelves of the magistrate's office (more than a thousand in her apartment), the dungeon's Beanie Babies, as Carl sees them; a stuffed armoured rider on a black horse, tagged Kimaris, in a glass case forged on the fifteenth floor, is the most valuable thing Carl owns and he does not know why.
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Progression
Kimaris still the item Pawna's Tears outvalues (ch. 2); a Grulke infantry figure from Bautista's thousand summoned as a twenty-five-second decoy toad (ch. 7).