Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Donut's songs

A bard whose spells are songs she must sing in key: sheet music for Skedaddle at ten hands, All Eyes on Me, a vocal coach in the saferoom (Wonderwall is only the tune of an alarm trap) — and the question of whether she can hold pitch when it matters.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
• Chapter 36 — Swole
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 66 — The Sugar Cube
• Chapter 69 — The prize counter
• Chapter 73 — Wonderwall, again
• Chapter 74 — All Eyes on Me
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Progression

Songs in key (ch. 4); 'Wonderwall', named for Carl and then playing over an alarm (ch. 25, ch. 26, ch. 29); a vocal coach in a closet-sized room (ch. 36); sheet music among the prizes, a spell at ten hands, and Mordecai's question whether she can hold pitch (ch. 63, ch. 69); Horton's 'Wonderwall' (ch. 73); 'All Eyes on Me', her mother's song, sung without the sheet music (ch. 74); Horton, the Wonderwall guy, dead (ch. 77).