Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The Temple of Khepri

An endless table under a moving blanket of insects: six nagas, one god, 433 kinds of bug, and a cannon barrel of fire.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 49 — Bijou, Theia and Khepri
• Chapter 50 — The Temple of the Dagda
• Chapter 51 — Dark Purpose
• Chapter 52 — The Temple of Khepri
• Chapter 58 — Sultan Rishi the Usurper

Arc

An endless table under a moving blanket of 433 kinds of bug, entered by three under ninety seconds of immortality into a trap (ch. 52, ch. 53); a cannon barrel of a room in which a thermobaric bomb turns Carl inside out and embeds immortal bugs in the walls like stars (ch. 54).