Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
Human Shells
The what-if people of the L'Engle Building, level 99, eyes sewn shut with black wire and X'd — Tran's parents, Louis's mother, Imani's family, Archie's wife, Miriam Dom at a New York piano — who break when the loop is broken and rupture into Khepri's scarabs. The un-X'd, Carl reads, are the living.
Segment appearances
Progression
Hoa and An, eyes sewn shut (ch. 74); 'Don’t kill the shells' (ch. 74); Mackenzie tears at her stitches; a Ruptured Feast Hive (ch. 75); a youth facility; Marjory (ch. 76); Miriam (ch. 77); the giant Imani who cannot leave (ch. 87).