Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Miss Nadine

A Bearded Sage Caterpillar, level 50, waist-high, six saddles on her back — once the Chee day school's teacher, who chews the trail through the jungle with her boys riding her. Killed on the riverbank during the Fort Freedom assault, by the boss's lightning as she attacks it; worthy; remade by Edgar's stick as a blood and ink elemental, a young chee woman in a long skirt with a child behind it. She is given life on the masquerade floor: 'Forever. She gave us life.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
• Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
• Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
• Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
• Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
• Chapter 55 — Save the toraline
• Chapter 75 — Sic 'em

Arc

The caterpillar with six saddles (ch. 13) who chews the trail (ch. 14), breaks for the water when the bodies surface (ch. 26) and explodes in green gore under the boss's lightning as she attacks it, Carl diving clear behind her (ch. 27). Worthy (ch. 28); inked as a young chee woman with a child behind her skirt (ch. 29); and, on the ballroom floor, alive: 'She gave us life' (ch. 75).