Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Priestly
Author of the Cookbook's 14th edition and Carl's best source on the ninth floor: a note written in awe of Larracos — a living poem, a play to see before expulsion, a promised map — and a last entry, after the city fell, that was an incoherent jumble.
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'Stab, stab, stab', the second-to-last entry, from the conscripted bugbear army, with Drakea's warning not to read the last one (ch. 54); Carl notes what Priestly did not know about Conscript (ch. 65).