Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
Samantha's body
Half of a goddess in a sex doll's head: Psamathe's first escape from the Nothing split her, and half her essence took refuge in the nearest unoccupied naiad vessel, a Lika doll. Mordecai: the halves of a split soul 'will always try to reunite', but only in 'a proper vessel' — and when the reunion goes wrong the result is a withering spirit, not alive, not dead, haunting the object with very little power.
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The flesh golem was wasted, and Grigori lays out her options (ch. 59); she proposes a prostitute named Vertical Smile as a body and shows off Sam Town, her room with a swing and a lava lamp (ch. 68); of Grigori the fleshmancer entering Sam Town, 'He didn’t even gasp' (ch. 70).