Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Carl's bare feet

Carl loses his borrowed Crocs in the first minutes and the AI notices: the Smush skill, the breathy item descriptions, the Enchanted Pedicure Kit of the Sylph, the Platinum Shoe Box. By the second floor his soles no longer feel the ground, his buffs require him barefoot, and the Maestro's parting gift of tactical boots is a taunt.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 7 — Duendes
• Chapter 10 — Pueblo de los Olvidados
• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 18 — Club Vanquisher
• Chapter 40 — The Book of Voodoo
• Chapter 46 — The Reminiscence Hydra

Progression

A mob a little too big to simply smush (ch. 7); a frozen floor Carl dares not test with a bare foot (ch. 10); a barefoot man in a straw headdress walking out of the fog, fire flecking off his bare feet (ch. 10, ch. 11); Carl's feet washed on the sun, the pedicure kit sparing him the feeling (ch. 18); a swordfish killed with a foot, Smush at 12 (ch. 40); Alpha Carl's bare foot on his chest — a naughty man with beautiful feet (ch. 46).