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Spider demigod who refused to be discarded and wrote herself permanently into Carl's chest.
Shi Maria is the spider. Quasar's entire one-sentence recap of the eighth floor ends with her — Carl "fucked up a little in the end and now has a spider stuck in his chest" — and when Tempest presses him about the last card, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, she has to prompt him twice to get anything more.
What he gives her is an admission rather than an answer: "nobody really knows how that's going to turn out with the spider in his chest." A demigod who declined to be discarded, hijacked her bearer's body and made herself an inextricable inner presence is not a situation the crawl's commentators, sponsors or lawyers have a precedent for. She goes into Faction Wars inside the most watched crawler alive, offering him power he did not ask for and cannot get rid of.
A spider demigod who exists now as an enormous inked spider spread across a man's chest, one eye at its centre, rather than as a body of her own.
The demigod passenger in Carl's chest, and the single most unpredictable variable going into Faction Wars.
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