Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
Seeds
'All it takes is a little seed.' Carl's mother's line, remembered at the circus, becomes his long game: talking Grimaldi down instead of killing him, the frog-in-the-pot speech that gets a trailer pulsed from orbit. 'Mordecai had his plans. I had my own.'
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Progression
'Just little seeds here and there, and soon enough you have a forest' (ch. 33).