Story so far
As the Emberus countdown ran and Elle pointed out that it was, like, really, really hot, Imani cut through the chatter: "Yeah, guys, time to leave." Louis said he was right behind her.
She is among the last group off The Ninth Floor, filing into the stairwell ahead of Carl and Donut as Larracos burns.
Appearance
Moving briskly for the stairwell through the ash and sweltering heat of the burning battlefield.
Role
The practical voice that gets the group moving in the final minute.
Relationships
Elle — Answers her observation about the heat by calling time.
Louis — He falls in right behind her.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 45 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 4
- Fellow crawler and ally, separated from Carl and Donut in the transition to the ninth floor and immediately checking that they survived it.
Chapter 7
- Crawler sharing a saferoom with Elle and opening her boxes during the chapter 10 loot rush.
Chapter 9
- Crawler leaving the city with Florin to prepare the crawler army's headquarters.
Chapter 10
- Guild leader of the Princess Posse, the only member who can designate saferoom airports for airships.
Chapter 11
- Crawler leader who is good with people, contrasted by Carl with Florin's talent for handling soldiers.
Chapter 16
- Teammate waiting in the Meadowlark saferoom when the returning Crest colonels reveal themselves.
Chapter 17
- Crawler who stays behind in her magic room to train battlefield enhancement spells with Mistress Tiatha.
Chapter 18
- Crawler who sides with Donut in the chat, campaigning against the FUPA nickname.
Chapter 20
- Crawler team leader scouting airship-base sites who fought chilly goats and found the buried saferoom outpost.
Chapter 22
- Lead healer at the treatment who casts protection on Carl, hands out sedatives, and pulls the two patients apart.
Chapter 24
- Crawler at Carl's bedside who pried off his toe ring, the instant the teleport request was accepted.
Chapter 30
- Winged buffer who arrives just in time to blanket the assault force in unprecedented protective magic.
Chapter 31
- Translucent flying healer working the open battlefield, hauling wounded soldiers out of fire two at a time.
Chapter 32
- Diagnoses Carl's blackout debuff, pushes the advance, and stays behind to save as many wounded as she can.
Chapter 36
- Crawler from Carl's hometown, who Carl warns will inevitably talk to Agatha if she appears.
Chapter 38
- Crawler healer-strategist who arrives via Shanty Town's doggie door and diagnoses the Extreme Focus buff.
Chapter 39
- Ally credited with bringing back a large group of crawlers, swelling the camp's supply of card carriers.
Chapter 40
- Crawler present for the saferoom decision, beloved by the sluggalos whose clubhouse horrified her.
Chapter 44
- Ally observing the battlefield from afar who confirms the enemy retreat and their heavy self-inflicted casualties.
Chapter 48
- Crawler who, with Elle, maintains the roster of missing and unaffiliated crawlers.
Chapter 49
- Crawler queued for a small blood tattoo from the ink left over after Carl's.
Chapter 54
- Officer whose attempt to calm Prepotente earns a vicious insult and triggers the sluggalos' mass defection.
Chapter 55
- Co-leads the concealed strike team that follows the sluggalo swarm into the naga castle.
Chapter 56
- Fairy-class crawler who takes a permanent barbed-wire tattoo to borrow Carl's Tripper spell for the castle raid.
Chapter 59
- Winged healer whose touch-based auras and Blessings make her one of only two aura crawlers in the guild.
Chapter 61
- Crawler who previously cast the tattoo spell on Carl, giving him the technique and the warning that it stings.
Chapter 66
- Crawler Carl asks to talk Louis down when he breaks down before the offensive.
Chapter 67
- The only member of Carl's inner circle who argued against giving Li Na a second Ring of Divine Suffering.
Chapter 68
- Coalition crawler present when the last surviving Blood Sultanate naga surrendered himself after Vinata's death.
Chapter 69
- Advisor at Donut's side on the tower, independently backing Carl's warning about the PA.
Chapter 70
- Crawler on the main band who notes how badly the Dream castle's deflector towers failed against the gods.
Chapter 73
- Crawler ally assigned to disarm alarm traps as the infiltration team crosses the Madness minefield.
Chapter 75
- Winged crawler who works the line against Madness mind magic and slaps Carl awake from a psionic spiral.
Chapter 76
- Crawler counted among those frozen in the pile of witnesses beside the Dream castle.
Chapter 79
- The nurse and reluctant leader whose buried history and love for Chris Carl accidentally sees during the dream bleed.
Chapter 88
- Coordinating the assault on the castle below alongside Katia and Elle during the Astral Paw massacre.
Chapter 89
- Crawler who sits with the grieving Zhang and scolds Elle for her canasta night remark.
Chapter 90
- Healer whose examination of Britney turns up perfect health and no trace of an axe or hidden presence.
Chapter 91
- Imani rides with Carl, pressing him for news on Louis and puncturing the Tart joke.
Chapter 92
- Spreads her wings and conjures a new kind of shield that saves four crawlers from the nuclear blast.
Chapter 94
- Imani delivers Kiwi's twins, casting soothing spells and shutting down every cruel joke about the newborns.
Chapter 96
- Grabs Carl by the shoulders to warn the timeline doesn't work, then harvests Lunette's organs.
Chapter 97
- One of three crawlers surrounding Lucia Mar in the last minutes, trying to talk her into the deal.
Chapter 98
- Hugs Katia goodbye in the tent, telling her to be safe.
Chapter 99
- Imani calls the moment to leave when Elle notices the heat and the floor has a minute left.