Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The stuffed figures
Miss Quill's collection: some three hundred tagged, stuffed monsters on the shelves of the magistrate's office (more than a thousand in her apartment), the dungeon's Beanie Babies, as Carl sees them; a stuffed armoured rider on a black horse, tagged Kimaris, in a glass case forged on the fifteenth floor, is the most valuable thing Carl owns and he does not know why.
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A back-alley mouser as Donut's stand-in (ch. 34); rare variants sorted by the hundred, and Slate Butterflies that drink light (ch. 57) — sewn into a jacket, they kill a warning light and draw a queen's lightning (ch. 67, ch. 76).