Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
Miss Nadine
A Bearded Sage Caterpillar, level 50, waist-high, six saddles on her back — once the Chee day school's teacher, who chews the trail through the jungle with her boys riding her. Killed on the riverbank during the Fort Freedom assault, by the boss's lightning as she attacks it; worthy; remade by Edgar's stick as a blood and ink elemental, a young chee woman in a long skirt with a child behind it. She is given life on the masquerade floor: 'Forever. She gave us life.'
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Arc
The children's keeper: the cubs and Clint are sent back to her (ch. 20); Holger stays with her (ch. 63); she clucks over the twins and goes to the twelfth (ch. 85).