Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Eileithyia

A name in Samantha's half-remembered account of where Diwata came from — 'Something to do with the Vinegar Bitch and Eileithyia' — after which, sniffing at Katia, Samantha tells her she has her scent.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 33 — Parlay
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 57 — Thirty-two boxes; the last prisoner
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Arc

In her true form: flowers in her hair, an alien lower face, four breasts, three fingers and toes, 'Girl power, bitches!' — and Huanxin's voice out of her (ch. 86). Frozen until Katia makes her choice, she does not see the woman inside her die. Unfrozen and unaware: 'You have always been one of my own, as are all who've been touched by the stillness'; she senses her daughters in the kinder facility, alone and afraid, and cannot reach them; she makes Katia human, names Louis a good soul, and lays a three-fingered hand on her stomach: 'It will be a boy' (ch. 86).