Character · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

Quasar

A Null attorney in a hula-girl tie, hired after Carl says the magic words in Orren's office (he wants a lawyer), who sums up the job: 'I can't stop you from getting fucked. But I am the condom.' He calls a pending suit over private messages at fifty-fifty (it wins), secures an injunction against the hunters' outside help, licenses Sensation's Vengeance of the Daughter past the sixth floor, explains Zerzura and Remex the Grand's fall, and turns the Society for the Eradication of Cocker Spaniels into a non-profit that buys a Faction Wars spot. 'You're a taxpaying stockholder now.'

Segment appearances

• Chapter 1 — Chandra; the garage
• Chapter 10 — Carl's boxes; Rishi's junk
• Chapter 28 — The interlocution; the question Orren wanted asked
• Chapter 79 — 715 deals; Britney in Carl's mind; the Nothing in quotes
• Chapter 88 — Interlude: Quasar; the eleventh floor — twenty-three crawlers; Chaco's parade

Arc

He tells Carl the Nothing is 'broken' and the twelfth and eighteenth floors are in chaos (ch. 1). In the interlude that opens the eleventh floor he watches gods pop up across the galaxy with Kiki at the attorney bar, sees his niece Tempest kill two Taurins with an illegal blaster, and hires Kiki for 'Both,' 'Fucking both' (ch. 88). Of the one deal offered Carl he says he 'wouldn’t trust it' (ch. 88).