Story so far
Elle took part in the rescue that ended Carl's Death Challenge!, and Princess Donut invokes her on air as evidence the bookmakers were fools: did they see how fast Elle flies? Donut lists her beside Li Na's chains and Katia Grim's dodging, noting that five of the crawlers present had been in the area's top ten.
Odette agrees that some of this crawl's survivors are far stronger than usual, and she is sorry the era of crawlers banding together is ending. Elle's contribution is one of the reasons the fifty-to-one line collapsed into a fortune for the bettors and a disaster for Borant Corporation.
Role
Allied crawler whose flight speed helped make Carl's rescue possible.
Relationships
Carl — Crawler she helped rescue from the Death Challenge.
Li Na — Fellow rescuer named in the same breath.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 13 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 26
- Wheelchair-bound, dementia-suffering Mrs. McGibbons from Brandon's care home — shockingly now a top-ten Frost Maiden.
Chapter 34
- Once a wheelchair-bound dementia patient, Elle is now a foul-mouthed, floating, top-ten Frost Maiden — loud, brash, and fiercely loyal to Carl and Donut.
Chapter 42
- A Meadow Lark scout confirming that robot rooms conceal a downward escape tunnel that opens after withdrawal begins.
Chapter 44
- Elle finally gets her roller coaster — riding the ghoul conveyor down to Trainyard D and freezing hundreds of monsters from the air.
Chapter 48
- Elle reports the province boss at stop 48, mocks her useless manager, and volunteers her crew to hold station 36.
Chapter 53
- Elle runs Carl's manhunt through five hundred refugees, keeps a filthy running commentary, and volunteers for the F line.
Chapter 54
- Elle opens a free stairwell at the blown station 72, gets Carl the rules on giant mimics, and talks a raid out of suicide.
Chapter 56
- She assumes Carl is planning to fight a province boss, which is the wrong guess and the right instinct.
Chapter 57
- Her freeze does nothing to the clonelings, so she spends the battle freezing their blood instead.
Chapter 58
- She kills a mantaur nobody knew was hostile, drops a rock into the noodle out of pure curiosity, and proves how gravity works down there.
Chapter 59
- She flies close enough to bounce icicles off a war god's skull, twice, and outruns a beam of melting heat by inches.
Chapter 60
- Floating banshee crawler who burned a precious scroll to reach Carl and is done with trains forever.
Chapter 61
- Flying crawler cited by Donut as proof the fifty-to-one odds on Carl were an insult.