Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Eileithyia's boons

Katia's celestial prize for flooding Larracos, unopened since the sixth floor: the Engaged Lock Box of the Night Wyrm, three seals, and inside it the Orchid of Eileithyia's Grace — an hour at 1% health for one of three boons: triple constitution; Celestial Attendant, frozen as an NPC on the twelfth floor; or a child and the Kinder Facility in Mumbai. Won with Astrid's death; 'I won't eat it until we get down to the ninth.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 56 — Justice Light; the Nest
• Chapter 84 — And then there were two
• Chapter 86 — We just need to kill you

Progression

Three choices Carl will not think about (ch. 56); a promise to hand the flower to Donut if it comes to that (ch. 47); eaten with sixty-six minutes left and no goodbye (ch. 84); a goddess frozen until the choice is made, and a pregnancy chosen to reach the children (ch. 86).