Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The collapse dead
'People who die in the collapse aren't really dead, but they're put in storage.' Maggie's claim, in Chris's voice, that the dead of the first night can be brought back, changed, and put in a crawler's path on the deeper floors; the Cookbook has hints of it and Mordecai has not been asked. The epilogue's word for them is the Collected.
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Progression
The AI's aside in Milk's chapter: seasons back the council decided that reconstituted loved ones under the age of maturity would no longer be used, and the rest only sparingly — so it changed one molecule on each (ch. 46).