Motif · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
The stuffed figures
Miss Quill's collection: some three hundred tagged, stuffed monsters on the shelves of the magistrate's office (more than a thousand in her apartment), the dungeon's Beanie Babies, as Carl sees them; a stuffed armoured rider on a black horse, tagged Kimaris, in a glass case forged on the fifteenth floor, is the most valuable thing Carl owns and he does not know why.
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Progression
Bautista's blizzard of them (ch. 67); Shi Maria, reading Carl's inventory: a summoning totem of Kimaris, and a war mage head — so many possibilities (ch. 71).