Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The river

The river across the floor between the jungle's halves, home to the naiads — horned, fanged, blue-tinged, taking bodies off the bank in under a second — and to Fort Freedom a quarter mile offshore; the Ursine town's mayor dies at its edge, and its water is blood and algae after the assault.

Segment appearances

Chapter 8 — The Night Wyrm's web
Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
Chapter 11 — The Recital
Chapter 13 — Elites in the trees
Chapter 14 — Were-castors
Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
Chapter 16 — Clint and Holger
Chapter 24 — The rock chucker
Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
Chapter 26 — Wonderwall
Chapter 27 — Claude Sludgington the Fourth
Chapter 28 — Premature Questjaculation
Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
Chapter 36 — Swole
Chapter 45 — The sorting yard
Chapter 51 — The howdah
Chapter 55 — Save the toraline

Arc

250 feet of slow water with white dots and a covered bridge; a corpse taken in under a second (ch. 10); the confederates emerging in hard rain (ch. 14); a mile and a half wide at the palace (ch. 25); a field guide to naiad waters (ch. 28); crossed by kayak in fog (ch. 29).