Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
A massively overloaded soul crystal shut inside a Sheol Glass Reaper Case: an explosion 'large enough to rattle the teeth of a god,' status Explosion Imminent, un-stabilisable, and in Carl's inventory, where it will detonate the moment it leaves. The book's title, and the most dangerous thing he owns.
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Copied into a simulator at last: 'One day' (ch. 4). Considered and set aside in the ballroom — would he kill Donut, Katia, Imani, Elle and the rest to make certain the hunters died? (ch. 73)