Character · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Sister Ines

Sister Ines Quiteria: a Havana brown cat-woman with a magical trident and a horror of false gods, the last of a Havana crew Carl takes for two convicts and a prison nun. Paz's dying confession: the men were guards, and she was the inmate — El Segador de La Habana, the Reaper of Havana, who poisoned every sister in her convent — and her race carries Toxoplasma, a charm that makes you love her and forget she told you. She flags dying Paz into a card, charms a sea serpent with poetry as the Nebulars' bard, and dies on a hallway floor mid-charge under Louis's knife, her body a doorway for Ysalte.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 5 — Sister Ines
• Chapter 6 — Monk seals
• Chapter 7 — Duendes
• Chapter 9 — The Mock Battle Arena
• Chapter 10 — Pueblo de los Olvidados
• Chapter 11 — Asojano
• Chapter 14 — The gauntlet run
• Chapter 15 — The Thorn Room
• Chapter 16 — Ogun
• Chapter 17 — Two goddesses
• Chapter 18 — Club Vanquisher
• Chapter 20 — Ruby
• Chapter 22 — Uzi Jesus
• Chapter 25 — The crab trap
• Chapter 48 — Mass Layoffs
• Chapter 52 — Two of five
• Chapter 53 — Flee rules
• Chapter 54 — Demon Eviction
• Chapter 55 — Survival Royale
• Chapter 56 — The Fumble
• Chapter 59 — Velma
• Chapter 60 — The last rampart
• Chapter 61 — Three out of four
• Chapter 62 — Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Chapter 63 — The doggie door
• Chapter 64 — Spunky Jefferson
• Chapter 65 — Graupel
• Chapter 66 — The Missing Piece
• Chapter 67 — The Big O
• Chapter 72 — Falling Up

Arc

The nun

A Havana brown cat-woman with a trident and a horror of false gods, met with two cousins Carl takes for convicts, and her for someone who worked at the prison (ch. 5); she cuts Anton's fingers off to break Oshun's charm and stands between a god and her friends with a trident, and is Shelved for it (ch. 15, ch. 16). Paz's dying confession: she was the inmate, the Reaper of Havana who poisoned every sister in her convent, and her race carries a charm that makes people love her and forget she told them (ch. 16). Carl chooses separation over killing her; she stabs a flag into Paz's neck as he dies and walks out of the temple without a word (ch. 16, ch. 17).

The poet

She blocks Donut, warns the monk seals and turns a sneak attack into a war of attrition (ch. 20, ch. 25); with a Book of Rhymes from her patron she charms the Madre de Aguas and, through it, every creature in earshot, and rides the serpent's head reciting (ch. 54, ch. 55). Force-fled by Quan, she loses her key (ch. 56); then, 'filled with power' by a patron who kicked her imbalance back into place, commands the freed demons and a Demon Prince (ch. 60), having called hell the wages of sin from atop the snake: 'There are no aliens. It’s demons' (ch. 55). She dies running down a hallway screaming 'Sinner!', asleep by a wand, under Louis's knife — and her corpse is the door her goddess comes through (ch. 65, ch. 66).