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Krakaren Crotch Dumpling
crotch dumplings · baby krakarens · the juvenile monsters · Krakaren clones
Bigger by the hour, staying put, and with nowhere anyone can account for them to go.
Story so far
The clones gathered at Station 24 are still growing. By all accounts they are not ranging far from the platform, which is precisely what bothers Carl: if there are that many of them and they get larger by the moment, they must be going somewhere. Set against Mordecai's explanation of the floor as a cartoon about the Krakaren absorbing the universe, Carl concludes they are meant to be the final blow — the exclamation point on the political point the floor is making.
Appearance
Small-dog-sized now and still swelling, packed shoulder to shoulder across a platform.
Role
The floor's growing swarm, and the presumed instrument of its endgame.
Relationships
Krakaren — Its clone offspring.
Station 24 — Massed there in thousands.
Carl — Cannot stop asking where they are all going.
Sources — 4 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 53
- Thousands of rice-grain clones that burst from a hatching stage three monster — and grow up terribly fast.
Chapter 54
- Seven hours of empty track and not one of them in sight — which is either mercy or a schedule.
Chapter 55
- They are the size of small dogs now, they drop nothing, and their blood sizzles on metal.
Chapter 56
- Bigger by the hour, staying put, and with nowhere anyone can account for them to go.