Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles
The Blood Sultanate
The faction Donut joined by putting on the Crown of the Sepsis Whore in chapter 7: a naga royal house that, Mordecai warns, holds its members on the ninth floor until every other member is dead — and that the Maestro says is almost always the first of the nine eliminated.
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Progression
A coup: Chandra's uncle is now the Sultan, and she was of no relation to the late Vinata; the Ventilator, a class-C rapid-attack battle cruiser, was damaged in the short, violent change of government (ch. 1).