Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The Walk-On List
The season's list of Natives — survivors who were neither Collected nor became Crawlers — whom the producers want kidnapped into the dungeon for drama, a practice the rules forbid and no court has ever punished. Bounty crews sneak onto the planet to fill it; on Earth, in the last weeks of winter, two of them hunt a cat named Gravy Boat.
Segment appearances
Progression
Bounty hunters selling survivors to Borant as bosses (ch. 18); explained to the audience and censored to the crawlers (ch. 19); the Syndicate's sampling of Earth's animals (ch. 41). A cat from the list is the queen's familiar (ch. 51).