Character · from book 4
Louis and Firas
Two level-22 Americans found drunk in a brothel bar on the fifth floor: Louis Santiago 2, a Pest Exterminator from Miami who drove his mother's convertible van down a stairwell and got a legendary knockout spell for it, and Firas M., a Hammersmith with a level-10 Puddle Jumper. Sobered by force, they grow into a bombing crew, the party's pilots and, by the end, something like friends.
First appears: Book 4
Series arc
Through book 4
Two drunk level-22s who become, over fifteen days, a bombing crew, the pilots of a flying house, and level 30 (B4 ch. 3, B4 ch. 5, B4 ch. 20). Louis's Cloud of Exhaust knocks out city hall's guards; Firas's Puddle Jumper gets the party onto a balcony; both fire rockets from the ground (B4 ch. 6, B4 ch. 12). They cut the top off the house, wreck a pub, get banned from a town, ride a bull of a house behind a god's puppy, and ferry the changelings across the Lacuna (B4 ch. 20, B4 ch. 29, B4 ch. 33). Louis finds the party's secret channel in a toilet stall; Juice Box says she will marry him (B4 ch. 32, B4 ch. 34). Both go with Katia.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Katia's own party | B4 ch. 33 | open — To gather the former Daughters before Eva does; the guild system may keep the space shared; the Left Fang to be returned. |
All threads: Open threads.
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods | 25/35 | 3, 5–8, 10–13, 15, 17, 19–21, 23–30, 32–34 · the book's own page |
By book
Louis and Firas in book 4 — The Gate of the Feral Gods
Chuckleheads
Found drunk at the Spit and Swallow with a changeling doing Jessica Rabbit on Louis's lap, level 22, coasting (ch. 3): Louis Santiago 2, twenty-seven, from Miami, who drove his mother's Chevy Astro — convertible for Instagram, the Tiddy Twister — down a stairwell on I-95 and got Cloud of Exhaust, a legendary knockout spell with a ten-minute cooldown he had only ever used to run; Firas M., a car detailer with a cleric's mace and a level-10 Puddle Jumper (ch. 5, ch. 6). Mordecai sobers them with Rapid Detox, which makes drinking impossible for the floor: 'It's all I got left.'
The pilots
They knock out city hall's guards (ch. 6), cut a fake throat on cue (ch. 11), fire their two rockets each (ch. 12), and while Carl is gone they cut the top off a house, learn to fly it by riding air currents, wreck a pub when it pops out of Katia's inventory, and get banned from a town when Louis urinates on the owner from the air (ch. 19, ch. 20). Level 30. They ride a bull of a house behind a god's puppy in a lightning storm (ch. 29), ferry every surviving changeling across the Lacuna (ch. 33), and go down with Katia. Louis barges into the haunted bathroom, spills the ink, and — Juice Box says — will marry her (ch. 32, ch. 34). 'You know a plan is really desperate when it requires confidence in people like us.'