Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The crawler count

The number on the first safe-room screen: 4,322,395 when Carl first sees it, under a million by the middle of the second floor. He tries not to look at it and always does.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 64 — The attendant entrance
• Chapter 77 — The mask

Progression

85,223 and 360 hunters (ch. 1); 83,995 and 1,013 (ch. 9); 66,000 and a hundred guilds (ch. 37); 59,259, with 23,385 still on the floor, 73 crawlers and 264 hunters at the party (ch. 64).