Bea

Beatrice is in the Bahamas with someone else when the buildings fall (ch. 1); her father is a lawyer out of Yakima, which is why catnapping Donut would never have worked (ch. 8). Every fact Carl learns about the end of his relationship comes from the cat: the other guy who came over on Carl's gym days (ch. 10), the three at once, counting Angel's owner, a woman (ch. 20), the leggings pyramid scheme (ch. 32), the Gossip Girl rewatches (ch. 36), the 'Daddy tax' (ch. 45). Donut still loves her more than Carl and says so (ch. 34); Carl does not say back that Bea was giving her up. He taught himself to brush the cat because Bea showed him (ch. 41).

A fan box gives Donut a framed photo from Bea's Instagram, the one of Bea on Brad_the_Chad69's lap that ended the relationship, and Carl finds the weight is gone (ch. 17). Her mother's Thanksgiving advice — seem dumber than you are — is what Carl fears Donut inherited (ch. 12); 'It doesn't take much to make him happy' is what Bea said about him (ch. 12). Chappy, an elf in a top hat, asks Donut on air whether she would leave Carl for Bea (ch. 19); under the glass case Donut says she knows Bea is dead (ch. 24).

Her photograph on Donut's bedside table (ch. 3); her mother in Madison's face-lift and in Katia's cosmetic-surgery look (ch. 6, ch. 17); her sunglasses in D'nadia's goggles (ch. 15); the car on the way to a Christmas party where she said Donut would go back to the breeder (ch. 18); the electric litterbox she asked for and was angry to get (ch. 29); and Donut's answer to why she came through the wall: 'Who do you think I am? Miss Beatrice?' (ch. 34).

The measure

Bea in the party's talk: coffee pods and a week on the couch, an article about fights and proposals (ch. 13); ten false pregnancy scares that terrified Carl (ch. 15); a drawer of sex toys and 'that Brad fellow' (ch. 24); her parents' twenty-percent tithe (ch. 32); the pancake morning that ended in an emergency room (ch. 23). Watching Donut, once Bea's show cat, on Mongo, Carl thinks: 'She's not a pet anymore' (ch. 11).

New Queen Anne

The epilogue finds her alive: back from the Bahamas with Brad and four dentists, in an airport parking garage when the world went, a month in a tent under a bridge, crying herself to sleep, not working, singing to a half-feral orange stray she calls Ferdinand — her neighbour's Gravy Boat, who came to the window when Princess was in heat — with her face scratched raw: 'I'd take it all back and let you in.' She went back to the hole where the apartment was to look for her cat. Lexis and Odette's people take her in a bounty cube, — 'I don’t think she’s all there' — for 'a much better use' (epilogue).

Alive (ch. 17): she survived the collection, was hunted to be sold to Borant as a country boss — 'a very specific one if they found her in time' — and was saved by Odette; she is off planet, on her way to the inner system, standing by (ch. 18). On air she is a hologram in a backless red gown, thin, hollow, ten years older, with holes in her memory; off air Donut says everything, and Carl says goodbye (ch. 19). Her drunk lullaby — 'Good girl, good girl, you're a good girl, my princess' — becomes Donut's spell (ch. 74). The queen was supposed to be her (ch. 65). She went to the Bahamas (epilogue).

A photograph with Brad on Donut's table (ch. 40); her mother as a fire-breathing head (ch. 46); Megatron12 on everything, a single mother fired, Asher's photo on her phone and her mother's 'just ignore it' (ch. 47). The first time Carl is angry at her.

Her shake weight, her father's pacemaker and a microwaved sausage sandwich, her monstrosities of tattoos, and an insult she once posted on Carl's behalf (ch. 73, ch. 74, ch. 81, ch. 84); a pink Bic like hers (ch. 73).

Donut names the truck's GPS Dr. Metcalf after Bea's expensive fake therapist, and a fan-voted upgrade gives it the woman's face (ch. 17, ch. 73); Donut's $800 crystal cleansing went on Carl's card (ch. 73). A hedgehog named Jezebel once beat kitten Donut for Cutest in Show and put Bea in a funk (ch. 48); Carl remembers Bea's hair caught in a jacket zipper (ch. 58) and the police at the door for three days (ch. 76).