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The child-crawler ally who, sick and vomiting after the battle, mysteriously steps into the floor-twelve portal accompanied by an inexplicable little girl.
Lucia Mar, the powerful young crawler who fights in a beautiful shape and a skull-hag form, ends the eleventh floor at the center of a fresh mystery. Through the arena battle she and Florin fought from their tuk-tuk until it was smashed, and afterward she stands holding the unconscious Florin before a stairwell portal. But peeking out from behind her legs is another person — a girl of maybe five, clinging to her leg — whom Carl glimpses and shouts at to stop, to no avail: the three of them step into the portal together.
No one else saw it; Imani recalls only that Lucia had been on her hands and knees vomiting earlier. Carl, who has repeatedly flagged that 'we have to keep Lucia alive,' files the impossible child away as one more urgent riddle to solve on floor twelve.
A young girl crawler who shifts between a beautiful form and a skull-hag form; here pale and sickened, accompanied by an inexplicable five-year-old girl.
The child-crawler ally whose mysterious extra companion and post-battle sickness pose a new floor-twelve riddle.
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