Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The security checkpoint
A featureless glass-floored chamber in orbit, near-zero gravity, with Earth turning below — the Indian Ocean, Madagascar, India burning — where two Shade Gnoll Riot Forces mercenaries pat Carl down between transfers. Coolie's last view of his own world.
Segment appearances
Arc
Earth below, ninety degrees wrong (ch. 17); India burning (ch. 30).