Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
A massively overloaded soul crystal shut inside a Sheol Glass Reaper Case: an explosion 'large enough to rattle the teeth of a god,' status Explosion Imminent, un-stabilisable, and in Carl's inventory, where it will detonate the moment it leaves. The book's title, and the most dangerous thing he owns.
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A softball-sized crackling gem that Carl takes, for a terrifying moment, for a massive soul crystal (ch. 14); the last seconds before the bomb did not go off, remembered as a frozen moment alongside Hekla's death and Bonnie's tears (ch. 32).