Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Everly

Author of the Cookbook's fifth edition, an insectile crawler ('a spark in my chitin'): her notes on mercenaries, on a sponsor's box that saved her party, and on hope — then 'I take it back. I take it all back', her sponsor Dictum Waystation Controls, Limited having steered her toward a watched and heartrending death. Carl cannot stop thinking of her last entry as the masquerade nears.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 6 — Miriam, Pony and Bianca
• Chapter 63 — Enchanted Hammer of Fast Forward
• Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance

Arc

On mercenaries (ch. 6); three last entries — a saving box, a spark in her chitin, 'I take it all back' (ch. 64). Her end is the shape Carl fears his own sponsors are steering him toward (ch. 63).