Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Samantha's body

Half of a goddess in a sex doll's head: Psamathe's first escape from the Nothing split her, and half her essence took refuge in the nearest unoccupied naiad vessel, a Lika doll. Mordecai: the halves of a split soul 'will always try to reunite', but only in 'a proper vessel' — and when the reunion goes wrong the result is a withering spirit, not alive, not dead, haunting the object with very little power.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 26 — MaeMae
• Chapter 32 — Minge
• Chapter 66 — The Missing Piece
• Chapter 70 — Golden Combo

Progression

Princess Lunette's body lies on the asphalt: once a fleshmancer casts the proper spell, Samantha would zap into it and have a body again, and nobody knows what would become of the doll's head (ch. 26); the only one who could do it is a master pulpmancer in Larracos, whose shop is in the bottom levels and who is most likely dead (ch. 26). Astrid is meant to come and deal with a very drunk doll head that will not leave the bar, and takes the main stairs instead (ch. 32); the neck hole is deeper on the inside (ch. 33, ch. 57); a pickaxe swung by a goddess bounces off her like a kick ball (ch. 66); Carl's head goes into it for twenty seconds (ch. 69), and he lets go of her onto a burning beam (ch. 70).