Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Eileithyia's boons

Katia's celestial prize for flooding Larracos, unopened since the sixth floor: the Engaged Lock Box of the Night Wyrm, three seals, and inside it the Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace — an hour at 1% health for one of three boons: triple constitution; Celestial Attendant, frozen as an NPC on the twelfth floor; or a child and the Kinder Facility in Mumbai. Won with Astrid's death; 'I won't eat it until we get down to the ninth.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 19 — What's in the box
• Chapter 30 — Four drugs
• Chapter 33 — Vorpals
• Chapter 37 — The eye of the Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson

Progression

An Engaged Lock Box of the Night Wyrm with two seals broken, and the Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace inside (ch. 19); finishing the quest opens the box and gives Katia the orchid, Huanxin's side of the bargain (ch. 30); 'Carl, we did it. I have the orchid' — and one more thing to do; the third seal is a fairy (ch. 33); Odette on the choices former crawlers make, Celestial Attendant the safest (ch. 37); 'He doesn’t want me to use the orchid' — a death sentence either way (ch. 64).