Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
The crawler count
The number on the first safe-room screen: 4,322,395 when Carl first sees it, under a million by the middle of the second floor. He tries not to look at it and always does.
Segment appearances
Progression
32,429 remaining when Larracos opens — more than 1,300 fewer than when the party was pulled into the sky (ch. 1); the remaining crawlers stream into the stairwells to the tenth (ch. 86); 20,221 make it, a record (ch. 85, epilogue).