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Carl's shapeshifting partner, trapped in the Club Vanquisher lobby and named a blood heir of the Sepsis Whore.
Katia Grim is named in the system announcement as a surviving blood relative of the Sepsis Whore, alongside Warlord Princess Donut, with her share of the Blood Sultanate estate forfeited to the Princess Posse by prior arrangement. Her first reaction over chat is pure exasperation: who the hell is Kandy Newton, and where the hell is Carl?
She reports the group trapped in the lobby after the door between the Dagda temple and the lobby shut and cut off Li Na's auras — Daniel got away, Li Jun and Zhang are stuck with her, and mantaurs, ogres and Basilica Guards are pouring in. She fights her way to the guild corridor with her totem Annie out, the skull-headed bird blood-soaked before it vanishes in a puff of smoke, and reaches Carl just as he rounds the corner. Inside the Calligraphy Guild she asks him, gently, whether he's okay — the question that finally breaks him open.
Fighting through the corridor blood-spattered, with her skull-headed totem bird Annie out and drenched beside her.
Field commander of the lobby group and the one who asks Carl the question that lets him cry.
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