Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Rosetta Thagra

The Cookbook's ninth-edition author, a Crest, host of the talk show Shadow Boxer, taped in the underwater production trailer, where she hides two messages in plain sight — a yam, and a screen of television shows all set in Miami. A member of the Open Intellect Pacifist Network who vanishes with it after the Homestead box, she reappears in the cockpit of the Homecoming Queen, paranoid, a scrambler at her throat, telling Tipid he paid for neither the ship nor a Celestial box: 'Comrade.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 12 — Shadow Boxer
• Chapter 13 — Milk and potatoes
• Chapter 31 — The corridor behind the shops
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 37 — The eye of the Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 38 — Monroe County
• Chapter 49 — The Shepherd's House flyer
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Epilogue — Homecoming Queen

Arc

Shadow Boxer: a yam, and a screen of Miami (ch. 12, ch. 38); gone with the Network after the box (ch. 49); in the Homecoming Queen's cockpit at the end, telling Tipid he paid for neither the ship nor Donut's celestial box (epilogue). Her Cookbook note on fairies: pull their wings off (ch. 31).