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Astrid is revealed as Damascus and Anaconda's mother, a natural dungeon resident who used her club authority to shelter her family and friends.
Damascus Steel reveals that Astrid and the Night Wyrm were his parents and that Anaconda is his brother. Astrid herself had once been a crawler or belonged to a comparable population of natural people bound to the dungeon.
As assistant manager of the Desperado Club, she arranged for her sons and their performer friends to occupy the Penis Parade while retaining Meat Shields memberships through Rosemarie's hidden office. The unusual assignment protected people who otherwise would have been sent into dangerous mercenary service.
The family expected eventual freedom, but Astrid's husband arranged her assassination while they remained legally married. Damascus believes the Night Wyrm will inherit everything she had when their dungeon service ends.
A fairy assistant manager standing protectively above two sons of different dungeon races and a hidden mercenary roster.
Astrid was both the assassination target and the architect of a covert sanctuary for her bound family.
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