Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Meadow Lark (party)

The party of night-staff and residents from the Meadow Lark eldercare facility in Wenatchee, Washington, camped at the borough boss's stairwell on the first floor when Carl and Donut find them: four able-bodied workers, Agatha and thirty-three elderly residents, with about thirty more in a Waffle House safe room nearby. The Royal Court of Princess Donut fights beside them without ever joining them.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 16 — The Paramour
• Chapter 44 — Upano: the pit stop; Jamal on the ceiling; three deaths in the street
• Chapter 54 — Grigori the Placid; Zhang's only way
• Chapter 68 — Sam Town; Cascadia's announcement
• Chapter 84 — The dachshund walks to the Hairpin
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance

Arc

Stories keep the town: Imani's, that Ingrid Schmidt cheated at bingo (ch. 37); Elle's, Francine Herrada and the knitting needle (ch. 68); Linus's, that Elle had Barry's Creedence albums in her room there (ch. 16). Grigori's hired-by line reads 'Team Meadow Lark' (ch. 54), and Chris fights the last heat in his Meadow Lark overalls (ch. 84).