Motif · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
The kinder facility
Zev's word for where children and pregnant crawlers go when they leave the dungeon: 'transferred to the kinder facility on the surface. They're free.'
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Zev explains that it is not all the children, just the ones who tried to get into the dungeon, and only half of those — one wing — and that they are on the surface in the kinder facility, at least physically (ch. 73). It is where the kids and the pregnant women are kept: a crawler who came in with his pregnant wife, Heidi, and lost her will die protecting Lucia if her fate is tied to it (ch. 78). It is Katia's reason to be made pregnant, and a goddess senses her daughters there and cannot reach them (ch. 86); Cronus suits are for a veteran on the surface (epilogue).