Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin
Volteeg
Author of the Cookbook's seventh edition, whose single entry — 'I miss her. I miss her so goddamn much' — Drakea marks as his first, last and only.
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The Volteeg interlude: a pet bird whose mistress hid him in her jacket and cried when he sang; a biscuit that gave him speech and a gargoyle race that took his song; her death on the seventh floor; twenty-six seasons as a stone guard; the One-Offs; and a return among the Operatics' mercenaries, hidden by Porthus's mole. He sings in a voice like rocks, steers a Weeper for Hortense's litter, takes a blitz stick — 'Show me Mistress Henspar' — and kills ten thousand, the Operatic Collective with them; seventh edition (ch. 35).