Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The Selva

The sixth floor's jungle of kite-sized leaves and pouring rain — the third floor's layout under centuries of growth — between Zockau in the north and the elf castle in the southeast: dryad villages behind bamboo walls, ursine towns, dinosaur lowlands, and, at the end, the towns the brambles eat one by one.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — The vice principal's office
• Chapter 2 — Night weasels
• Chapter 4 — Golden Throat
• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 9 — Just Wait Until Your Daddy Gets Home
• Chapter 10 — No dinosaurs of any kind
• Chapter 11 — The Recital
• Chapter 12 — No matter what
• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 15 — The kids' menu
• Chapter 36 — Swole

Arc

Rain and drums of water and the scent of flowers (ch. 2); a blank map past the border (ch. 5); a railway cart under a spell dome (ch. 6); ruins under foliage (ch. 14); slickback holes and an all-tree round the bend (ch. 24); a forest fire in a downpour (ch. 46); a clearing ringed with corpses at sunrise (ch. 47); fifty markers on every map (ch. 48); a procession of white beasts in rain that stops like a switch (ch. 51); a wall of thorns from the north (ch. 52); a Cold Stone Creamery nobody may bomb (ch. 60); a church become a hedge (ch. 62).