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location
Iron Tangle
The earlier floor where Katia first lost the ends of her fingers, the start of her hidden injuries.
Story so far
When Katia's missing limbs were finally revealed in the tent, Carl remembered that she'd lost the ends of the fingers on her hand all the way back on the Iron Tangle.
He said he'd had no idea how much more she'd lost since. Katia's answer: how could he? We've all become experts at hiding what we've really lost.
Role
The earlier floor that marks the beginning of Katia's long list of concealed injuries.
Relationships
Katia — Lost her fingertips there, the first of her hidden losses
Carl — Remembers her injury from that floor
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 20
- Floor whose nagging sense of missing something important returns to Carl when he considers the Syndicate's ordinary citizens.
Chapter 46
- Fourth-floor level where Carl's party killed Growler Gary repeatedly to steal his hand.
Chapter 61
- Earlier floor recalled by Carl as evidence of Li Na's capacity for calculated cruelty.
Chapter 69
- The famously incomprehensible earlier floor Carl invokes twice as a benchmark for complexity and memory.
Chapter 98
- The earlier floor where Katia first lost the ends of her fingers, the start of her hidden injuries.