Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Bea

Beatrice, Carl's ex-girlfriend, Donut's owner and handler, in the Bahamas, with her ex-boyfriend along, when the world ends. Never on the page in person; present in Carl's resentment and in every one of Donut's sentences that begins 'Miss Beatrice.'

Segment appearances

Chapter 12 — No matter what
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 17 — The security checkpoint
Chapter 18 — Ten minutes, Odette
Chapter 19 — Miss Beatrice
Chapter 20 — Viva la revolución
Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 34 — How to kill a mantis
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 38 — Edict
Chapter 39 — Prepotente Town Number Four
Chapter 41 — The Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels
Chapter 43 — The Midnight Epicure
Chapter 46 — Sierra
Chapter 49 — Kiwi
Chapter 50 — Uncle Morty's Insta Lawn-Kill
Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble
Chapter 54 — The blood bar
Chapter 57 — I Take it All Back
Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
Chapter 65 — The Oak Mother's sacrament
Chapter 70 — Anaconda
Chapter 74 — All Eyes on Me
Epilogue — Epilogue

Arc

Alive (ch. 17): she survived the collection, was hunted to be sold to Borant as a country boss — 'a very specific one if they found her in time' — and was saved by Odette; she is off planet, on her way to the inner system, standing by (ch. 18). On air she is a hologram in a backless red gown, thin, hollow, ten years older, with holes in her memory; off air Donut says everything, and Carl says goodbye (ch. 19). Her drunk lullaby — 'Good girl, good girl, you're a good girl, my princess' — becomes Donut's spell (ch. 74). The queen was supposed to be her (ch. 65). She went to the Bahamas (epilogue).