Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Odette's people's proverb — never stare into the blinding eye of the Bedlam Bride, lest obsession blind you to all else — and, by the end of the eighth floor, a tattoo above Carl's sternum: an eye Shi Maria pokes into him with ink from a toraline root while she wears his body, that blinks once and hides. 'I am a part of you… Keep me with you and gain my power, or set me free.' The escort quest survives the tearing of her card.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 37 — The eye of the Bedlam Bride
• Chapter 50 — Homestead
• Chapter 71 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Progression

'The Bedlam Bride. Now that’s a proper name' (ch. 8); a Reaper Spider Minion, and a new quest (ch. 26); the announcer's shriek (ch. 28); Odette's people's saying — never stare into the blinding eye of the Bedlam Bride — and Odette, who has stared into it once again (ch. 37); the saying in Carl's dream (ch. 50); a tattoo, in ink from a root and a friend's blood (ch. 71); 'in a different way' (ch. 72); 'He needs to expel that presence' (epilogue).