Motif · Book 8, A Parade of Horribles

The Unwashed

The creature Juice Box became — the Hag, the Stalker, the Beautiful Place, said to be a personification of the Nothing — built as an upside-down tree of black dahlias falling to red on the Vengeance float: 'a reminder that death comes for us all'. The last face the AI shows among the Ascendency's contenders.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 86 — Mimics; the Big Six
• Chapter 92 — Chaco on Lamashtu; the AI's history in four parts; Vengeance
• Chapter 93 — The arena: 'I choose Scolopendra'
• Epilogue — Epilogue: Sydnee Iglacia, Prime Minister Victory, Louis Santiago 2

Progression

Dead mimics look like it (ch. 86); the effigy (ch. 92); the last contender (epilogue).