Character · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

Zev

A two-foot-tall kua-tin in a water-filled 1950s space suit: Borant's Assistant Communications Representative, assigned to Carl and Donut as their PR agent once interview requests pile up. Terrified of her own government, starved of anyone to talk to about Gossip Girl.

Segment appearances

Arc

Back on the account with new security protocols (ch. 6); interrupting at the exact moment, which is the message (ch. 12); out of the suit, thin, on a rebreather, in a room where it is safe to talk — 'About this subject' (ch. 17). She tells the parts Odette leaves out (ch. 18), is named beside the Borant Emancipation Front as a recipient of Donut's smuggled agents (ch. 20), and on the Valtay ship, small and tired, chooses every word (ch. 30): her family slaughtered over a pin (ch. 32). Promoted (ch. 40). Through the party she is a chorus — a warning not to smuggle Signet in, 'They're going to be pissed', 'Godsdamnit, Carl', 'It's complicated' (ch. 66, ch. 67, ch. 68, ch. 71) — and she tells him mid-speech that he has been muted: 'You're crazy, Carl.' 'And you're still in a job' (ch. 77).