Felice Landry
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First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 5 (4)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 5Seventeen-year-old star of ring-hockey on Acadie, who rides a three-ton verrul and has never fallen in her first professional season.
- Ch 5She scored a record eight goals in the championship game and single-handedly beat off Whitewing's final assault after all her teammates were downed.
- Ch 5Felice feels orgasmic surges when she wins and stuns opponents, yet privately craves escape from the adoring crowd and its pressing demands.
- Ch 5She is small and slight but unusually strong in mind and body, with an uncanny ability to control the evil-tempered verrul mounts.
- Ch 5Her gaze overpowered Benny after he tried to kiss her, leaving him slumped and helpless against a wall.
- Ch 13Felice is eighteen, a former professional athlete from Acadie, and wants to pass through the time-portal into Exile.
- Ch 13Felice feigns docility and fear to manipulate the counselor, while inwardly refusing any mind treatment.
- Ch 13Tests show Felice has latent metafunctions (coercive, psychokinetic, psychocreative) of extremely high magnitude.
- Ch 13Felice has refused treatment for her psychosocial problems, including an SM problem and male-envious hyperaggression.
- Ch 13Felice snaps Shonkwiler's collarbones after he reveals the recidivist clause could let her bypass the age limit.
- Ch 14Felice, a pale-haired young woman in a black cheongsam, is chained by a silver wrist chain to her chair; Elizabeth thinks she is a dangerous recidivist.
- Ch 17Felice wears a green-and-black ring-hockey uniform with cuirass, greaves, Grecian helm and a hidden gold-handled dirk as her Pliocene outfit.
- Ch 17Felice was the best ring-hockey player of all time on Acadie. The male players refused to face her, and she was barred after being accused of deliberately injuring two of them.
- Ch 17Felice admits she probably did deliberately try to hurt the two players. She says people have always feared her, and she was lonely and friendless.
- Ch 17Felice has a gift for controlling animals; as a girl of fifteen she tamed a verrul, then sold it and entered professional ring-hockey.
- Ch 17Felice plans to be a huntress in the Pliocene and offers to care for Amerie better than Claude could, saying they need each other.
- Ch 17Felice's parents, soil scientists always on field expeditions, treated her as excess baggage and let her go with 'Be happy, baby.'
- Ch 19Felice, a former hockey player, loathes the idea of redactors and being read; she is aggressive and seems dangerously unhappy.
- Ch 19Felice hints she may bargain or push her way into a share of local resources in the Pliocene.
- Ch 20Armed with a new arbalest and wearing black armor and a Grecian helmet, she is trembling and tearful with fear and hope.
- Ch 25Felice is an athlete who refuses the mental test, fearing it as a mind probe; she is not heterosexually oriented.
- Ch 25Felice hid her thoughts behind pathetic whinings so Epone could not read her, and secretly plans to take on the whole Tanu community.
- Ch 26Felice's arbalest, skinning knives, ropes and other useful gear were taken from her pack.
- Ch 29Felice, a small ring-hockey player, has an escape plan whose weakness is lack of navigation; she is hostile to Richard and crushes his hand.
- Ch 31Felice is an imperfect metapsychic from Acadie who can override the chalikos' control and now seems able to compel an amphicyon's mind.
- Ch 31Felice plans to take over bear-dogs when they are worn out at day's end, hoping to control two or more at once.
- Ch 31Raised in 0.88 Earth gravity on Acadie, she easily lifts Richard and Claude off their chalikos, hinting at great strength.
- Ch 33Felice plans a breakout before dawn, fearing that once tested at Finiah as a latent metapsychic she will be collared or killed.
- Ch 33Felice is small but very strong, and secretly weakened the ankle chains of several prisoners so they can be broken.
- Ch 33Felice hid a slender golden cross in her greave; it is actually a scabbard holding a small dirk.
- Ch 33Felice sat motionless and impassive on her mount during the battle, watching the carnage and telling Richard's group whom to kill.
- Ch 33After the last soldier fell, Felice rose in her saddle, cried out and writhed, then slumped back inertly.
- Ch 35Felice used a knife to kill Epone, and she is an archer with coercive powers who moves the rhinos away and hunts marmots.
- Ch 35Felice resents that the freed prisoners did not thank her and remained afraid of her; she is strong enough to haul two people up a slope.
- Ch 35Felice secretly planned to use the golden torc to tame the power inside her, escape captivity and free all human slaves.
- Ch 35Felice says the others now know about her, so obtaining another golden torc will be very dangerous; she thinks of ambushing a caravan or going to Finiah.
- Ch 35Felice mocks Amerie's vow of renunciation, saying it was made six million years ago in a different world, and insists Amerie needs her.
- Ch 35Felice was knocked out by Amerie's group during a fight, apparently to stop her from killing Dougal.
- Ch 37Felice uses mental powers to calm a sabertooth into leaving the group alone, and rescues the drowning Amerie from the river.
- Ch 37Felice proposes going near Finiah to obtain a golden torc, then planning a strike on the Tanu after studying their defenses and torc technology.
- Ch 39Torcless young athlete who can control animals and influence some humans; desperately wants a golden torc and wants to kill more Tanu with her dagger.
- Ch 39Felice can control bear-dogs and desperately wants a golden torc, but the Firvulag distrust her and refuse to give her one.
- Ch 40Felice, a small pale-haired woman, asks Yeochee for a golden torc; he deflects her, hinting she may take Lugonn's torc at the crater.
- Ch 41Felice is determined to find the Spear and refuses to postpone the expedition a year, even if she must go alone.
- Ch 41Felice urges the group to cross the Rhine before the moon rises over the mountains.
- Ch 42Young, athletic archer compared to Artemis; Claude believes she will never settle for a natural life while any golden torc remains.
- Ch 43Blonde athletic woman who carries a bow and, despite her latent powers, senses the Howlers' hostility.
- Ch 45Felice is obsessed with finding Lugonn's torc and, if she fails, intends to hold King Yeochee to his promise.
- Ch 45Felice flew into a rage on finding Lugonn's skeleton without a torc and nearly lost control; Madame restrained her and Richard knocked her out.
- Ch 45Felice is immensely strong, carrying the eighty-kilo powerpack and Spear on her shoulders.
- Ch 45Felice runs ahead eagerly, then leaves a dust message 'GONE HUNTING' beside the Spear.
- Ch 46An archer who hunts for food; she has no torc and longs for one, planning to take one on the Finiah battlefield.
- Ch 48Felice begged to join the flyer mission, but Claude refused, fearing she would distract Richard and endanger the strike.
- Ch 48Felice wears black leather ring-hockey armor refurbished by Old Man Kawai's artisans, and is desperate not to miss the war.
- Ch 49Felice is racing through the Vosges jungle toward the Rhine, fearing she will miss the war and her chance at a golden torc.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 5Felice, a young ring-hockey player with great strength and an ability to control animals, is suspected of leading a revolt that killed Epone.
- Ch 5Felice and three other members of Bryan's Group remain at large after the caravan revolt.
- Ch 14Felice, a small woman in shining black armed with a compound bow, walks the ruins of Finiah and kills remaining loyalist grays and a vengeful bareneck woman.
- Ch 14Felice takes a golden torc from a dead gold-torc woman, washes it and puts it on; her latent mental powers open to her.
- Ch 14Felice arrived alone through the high passes, too late for the war, and laughs with joy on Velteyn's balcony after donning the torc.
- Ch 15Felice is a young woman wearing a torc and looting glass armor from a body in Velteyn's mansion, making her own Combat plans.
- Ch 15Felice may have masterminded Epone's killing and helped bring back the Spear; her known power may be coercing animals.
- Ch 18Felice returned with her golden torc and the chalikos and agreed to join the expedition; she has psychokinetic (PK) powers.
- Ch 18Felice resolves to carry the Spear the whole 1,300 km to Muriah and get Aiken Drum to open it.
- Ch 20Felice is a gold-torc woman with psychokinetic and creative powers. She is disguised as the warrior-maid Lady Phyllis-Morigel in blue coercer's armor.
- Ch 20Felice proposes simulcasting a loud mental shout from twenty kilometers up the North Road, so Tanu cannot fix the source and Elizabeth can track Madame.
- Ch 20Felice will dress in armor and leave at dawn with Basil, Uwe and Khalid as a gray-torc escort, using the cover story of seeking her Uncle Max.
- Ch 20Felice asks the others to obtain more blue lacquer at the Fair because the coating on the Spear is peeling.
- Ch 24Felice has coercive and psychokinetic powers but cannot redact; her coercion tangles with her emotions, and she panicked and lost control of Harry.
- Ch 24Felice wants to form a coalition of human-loyal silvers, re-torced with stolen gold, as a human elite corps against Tanu metas.
- Ch 24After Amerie's prayer, Felice says she can believe in Mind and will try to reach out for strength before the next rapids.
- Ch 24Felice mentally grips Harry's mind as he pilots the riverboat. His final rage ends in his death, and she is left alone.
- Ch 24After Harry dies, Felice takes the skipper's place at the wheel and uses her PK beneath the hull to lift the boat free of the eddy.
- Ch 24Felice lifts the riverboat out of the whirlpool and flies it over the mist-covered lake beyond the Rhône's terminal drop. She feels great joy.
- Ch 25Murderer of Epone who wears stolen gold; Culluket will interrogate her before she is made to fight in the games.
- Ch 27Felice is now a powerful gold-torc wearer with coercion, psychokinesis, redaction and creativity; she created a boulder and a cage of blue flame.
- Ch 27Felice distrusts Aiken and persuades the group to abandon his map and plan their own penetration through the front instead.
- Ch 27Felice fails to reach either Aiken or Elizabeth by farspeech at half past midnight.
- Ch 28Disguised as the Exalted Lady Phyllis-Morigel, Felice leads armed saboteurs into the Coercer Guild headquarters in Muriah, using coercion to control guards and the majordomo.
- Ch 28Felice melts the huge bronze doors of the torc factory with psychokinesis, but finds the Host of Nontusvel waiting in ambush.
- Ch 28Felice killed three of the Host by mind power alone before being subdued by their combined strength; Culluket holds her in mental bondage.
- Ch 28After her capture, Felice's golden torc is cut off with an iron blade, to be replaced later by a gray torc at Culluket's whim.
- Ch 30She endured days of torture and refused ever to cry out; a tiny shielded spark of her identity survived Culluket's assault.
- Ch 30Under duress she revealed that Aiken Drum has the Spear of Lugonn, the Ship's Grave flying machines, iron weapon schemes and northern fortified villages.
- Ch 30She has lost her golden torc and her metapsychic faculties are walled up; she was fitted with a gray torc and jailed deep in the catacombs.
- Ch 31Felice, once Elizabeth's friend, is nearly insane; Creyn smuggles her to the balloon so Elizabeth can choose to take her.
- Ch 32Felice wakes free in the balloon with Stein and Sukey, removes her dead gray torc and drops it into the Empty Sea.
- Ch 32Her mind regrows whole after torture, giving her coercive, psychokinetic, creative and farsensing powers; she credits the Beloved and loves him more.
- Ch 32Felice plans to murder the entire Tanu race while they are gathered at the Combat, using Stein's knowledge of earth faults.
- Ch 32She makes the balloon invisible with illusion, lands it by a fjord, and finds in Sukey's mind what will motivate Stein to help.
- Ch 33Felice became fully operant without a torc through the Tanu's tortures, claiming PK stronger than any Tanu Great One.
- Ch 33Felice plans to blow open Gibraltar to flood the Mediterranean basin during the Grand Combat, drowning the Tanu and many Firvulag.
- Ch 33Felice wants Stein to show her where to place blasts so the walls collapse; she will give Elizabeth a warning only after starting it.
- Ch 33Felice can farsense Richard orbiting in a dying flyer with his dead lady, his oxygen nearly exhausted.
- Ch 34Felice is a psychokinetic and metapsychic young woman with a creative metafunction who agrees to blast the Gibraltar isthmus so the Atlantic floods the Mediterranean basin.
- Ch 34Felice can see through rock like Aiken could, perceiving faults and caves underground, and giggles madly while destroying the fjord.
- Ch 34Exhausted, Felice draws on a different, willing source of power after the Pliocene Mind and others refuse her, and finally breaks the isthmus open.
- Ch 34Felice was apparently expected to break the dam, but Stein says the flood will happen even without her.
- Ch 35The infamous Felice, a top-ranked gray contender, was scratched from the Low Mêlée without explanation.
- Ch 36Felice, called Morigel, murdered Epone; rumor says she escaped Cull and flew away in a ball of hot blood.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 2Felice can shapeshift between a great raven, a small fair-haired woman in black armor, and a naked form; she scavenges golden tores from drowned bodies.
- Ch 2Felice is described as methodical in her unsanity and endlessly searches for treasure and for her Beloved Culluket.
- Ch 2Felice hid in a cave near Muriah with doomed friends months ago, where a trickster robbed her; she says she dealt with that matter.
- Ch 2Felice has a farsensing eye that can see through water and rock and detect the density of gold.
- Ch 2Felice shields herself from the devils with thought-screens and a psychocreative shield, and evades their tracking.
- Ch 3Felice Landry appealed in desperation to what she thought were dark forces at Gibraltar; her projected need was farsensed on Ocala.
- Ch 6Felice is alive; Elizabeth has farsensed her calling. She was thought dead, and was responsible for the Gibraltar cut.
- Ch 6Felice imagines she is a black scavenger bird, gathers and hides golden tores, and keeps calling Culluket on the declamatory mode.
- Ch 6Felice was tortured by Culluket, which forced her into metapsychic operancy and created a perverse link between them.
- Ch 6Felice and others who knew the location of the Ship's Grave were believed dead, making Sugoll and Katlinel's help needed.
- Ch 7Felice was seen flying over the Betics; Culluket regards her as dangerous and regrets not killing her.
- Ch 12Felice can shapeshift into a giant raven and uses the bird form to hunt for tores, which she hoards in a mountain cave.
- Ch 12Felice is mad; she hears 'devil voices', calls for her Beloved from the sky, and fears being triangulated by Aiken Drum or Elizabeth.
- Ch 12Felice helped create the Flood and the New Sea, which killed many Tanu and humans; she ignores the devils and hides her location.
- Ch 12Felice befriends wild animals that bring her food and flowers, including Otter, Roe Deer, Yellow Panda, and the lynx Pseudaelurus.
- Ch 12Felice previously slew Epone, vowed to destroy the Tanu, was defeated in Imidol's ambush and tortured by Culluket.
- Ch 12Felice stripped Fian's golden tore from his corpse but spared Kuhal's, mocking him.
- Ch 13Felice, the Raven Girl, has unmatched psychokinetic and psychocreative power; she opened the Gibraltar Gate and now hides on Mount Mulhacén seeking Culluket.
- Ch 13She distrusts others, remembers Aiken Drum as a swindler, and agrees to let five of the Devils come to help find Culluket.
- Ch 13Her memory shows the Gibraltar cataclysm was augmented by outside help, so her power was not singular.
- Ch 14Felice, a powerful being holed up in a cave on Mount Mulhacén in Spain, was tortured by a Tanu redactor and invited the young people to come.
- Ch 14Felice will allow only five visitors to approach her.
- Ch 16Felice takes the form of a raven and hunts prey, but she no longer feels the old psychoenergy release when a victim dies.
- Ch 16Felice is haunted by recurring torture memories in which a beloved torturer inflicts agony and ecstasy on her, which she blames for her ruin and her power.
- Ch 16Felice drives off the sabertooth cats with a coercive mental blast and kills a gazelle by pecking its eye.
- Ch 16Felice has faithful friends on Mount Mulhacen and takes small joys in gleaning gold, but nothing fulfils her.
- Ch 16Felice believes that visitors are coming to bow down to her and bring her Culluket, her heart's desire, and she wants revenge on him.
- Ch 16Felice's mind is sick: she perceives pain as pleasure because her mental circuits were dislocated when she was very young.
- Ch 21Felice is described as mad and far more powerful mentally than the youngsters sailing to confront her in Spain.
- Ch 23Possesses the Spear; Aiken must decide how to deal with her after the Grand Loving.
- Ch 24Felice is a powerful, unstable, childlike metapsychic who protects animals, shields her mind, and believes herself a goddess; she loves Culluket.
- Ch 24Felice fears redaction because she thinks it would erase her self; she has nightmares and craves relief from pain.
- Ch 24Felice can shapeshift into a giant raven, create tidal surges, burn and repair material, and destroy a body by mind alone.
- Ch 24Felice is a girl in a drowning, tormented state who has killed before and now wants to kill again.
- Ch 24Felice says she was rejected by a woman who claimed to love her, a rejection she is told was only sex renounced, not love.
- Ch 24The shapeshifting figure offers to drain Felice's pain and evil and heal her; Owen contests this and urges Felice not to listen.
- Ch 29Felice killed Vaughn Jarrow in a first encounter and has gone to Elizabeth, leaving the children's mission in disarray.
- Ch 30Felice can shapeshift into a raven; for over two weeks she has visited Elizabeth daily, always flying away until she stays over two hours today.
- Ch 30Felice's brain has anomalously fused pleasure-pain pathways, and she is dangerously powerful; she could easily kill Elizabeth during healing.
- Ch 30Since she opened the Straits of Gibraltar, her unconscious derangement has increasingly affected her conscious mind, leaving limited time before she can no longer consent to redaction.
- Ch 30Felice claims not to believe in God, devils or anyone's existence, but finally agrees to stay and undergo Elizabeth's healing.
- Ch 30Felice distrusts Dionket as a coward who failed to stop her torture by Culluket, but accepts Creyn.
- Ch 31Felice is undergoing a psychic redaction by Elizabeth in the room without doors at Black Crag; she hoards the Spear and golden tores.
- Ch 34Felice has coercive and creative powers near the six-hundredth order of magnitude, with PK not far below; no entity in the Galactic Milieu matched her.
- Ch 34Felice was abused by her parents, who used her as a toy and discarded her; she craved death and was bound in pain to Culluket.
- Ch 34After Elizabeth's redaction, Felice wakes sane, refuses to become like Elizabeth, chooses her own self, thanks Elizabeth and vanishes.
- Ch 35Felice says Elizabeth has cleared her madness and she is now sane; she chose Amerie over Culluket and has come to fetch her.
- Ch 35Felice calls herself a white gyrfalcon and a Goddess, and has psychic powers: she snuffs candles, burns cloth and flesh, and can stop a heart.
- Ch 35Felice believes Amerie rejects her because of Amerie's God and thinks Amerie still finds her love filthy and sinful.
- Ch 35After Amerie dies, Felice rages, mourns, and shape-shifts back into a raven to go to Spain.
- Ch 36Felice escaped from Elizabeth after redaction and killed Amerie; she remains sane but selfcentered and does exactly as she pleases.
- Ch 36Felice is obsessed with Culluket and plans to imprison him encased in gold with conductive metal to torment him with pain and pleasure.
- Ch 36Felice searches Tanu cities from Goriah to Afaliah for Culluket, finding them strangely empty, and then returns toward her home at Mulhacén.
- Ch 36She returned in raven form to find her Mulhacén lair buried by a rockslide and her treasure chamber emptied.
- Ch 36She suspected Culluket and Aiken Drum of destroying her home and stealing her treasure, and she pursued them in a hoplite-like armored form.
- Ch 36She survived Aiken's first blast by d-jumping above the flotilla, then was destroyed by his second point-blank metaconcert blast.
- Ch 39She d-jumped (translocated) during the fight and may have attacked Marc Remillard; she is now dead.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 1Felice leapt by d-jump to North America and inserted herself into the metaconcert, absorbing the destructive energy meant for Aiken and becoming a new Duality with Culluket.
- Ch 1Felice is gone after the experiment; the demonic power that attacked Marc is described as a blazing female shape, a 'frustrated monstermind'.
- Ch 10Entombed in a doorless impervious globe in rockfall by the Rio Genii; Marc cannot sense her and Elizabeth says she is beyond his reach.
Connections
- member ofGreenhammer
- enemy ofCounselor ShonkwilerHe obstructs her application; she assaults him
- member ofGroup Green
- related toSister Annamaria Roccarocamp partners; Felice proposes to protect her as huntress
- friend ofSister Annamaria RoccaroAmerie loves Felice but refuses a sexual relationship
- friend ofClaude Majewski
- ally ofRichard Voorheeshostile but cooperating
- enemy ofLady EponeFelice killed Epone with a steel knife
- partner ofSister Annamaria RoccaroFelice pursues Amerie, who resists because of her vow
- ally ofSister Annamaria Roccaro
- related toAyfaAyfa or Skathe would restrain Felice if she betrays
- enemy ofClaude MajewskiClaude distrusts her as a menace
- ally ofMadame Guderianrestrains and looks after her
- friend ofRichard Voorheesteasing banter
- related toRichard VoorheesRichard has feelings for Felice, according to Claude
- ally ofBasil Wimbornegray-torc escort
- ally ofUwe Guldenzopfgray-torc escort
- ally ofKhalid Khangray-torc escort
- enemy ofHarryShe mentally dominates him and he dies in the struggle.
- enemy ofAiken Drumbetrays her group while pretending to help
- ally ofPeopeo Moxmox Burke
- enemy ofCullukettorturer
- friend ofElizabeth Ormeformer friend
- ally ofStein Oleson
- partner ofCulluketshe calls him her Beloved
- enemy ofthe devilsshe hides from them
- ally ofMarc Remillardaided her from afar
- friend ofPseudaelurus
- related toCulluketFelice calls Cull her Belovedfused with her in the Duality
- created byMarc Remillardforged the metaconcert linkage
- related toElizabeth Ormeoffers to heal her mind through telepathic contact
- ally ofElizabeth Ormeintervenes to protect and offer help
- enemy ofOwen Blanchardplots to docilize her
- ally ofOwen BlanchardOwen claims to be her true friend
- enemy ofSister Annamaria RoccaroFelice killed Amerie
- related toMercedes LamballeAiken suspects she reports to him and left Aiken for him
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 5Felice wins the championship
Felice Landry scores the final goal and wins Greenhammer's first pennant, circling the arena to the cheers of fifty thousand fans.
- Book 1 · Ch 5Benny's failed advance
After the game, Benny grabs Felice for a kiss; with a look she incapacitates him. A medic takes him to the infirmary, and he calls her a dangerous freak.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Felice assaults the counselor
Shonkwiler pressures Felice to accept therapy and wait, but mentions the recidivist clause as an age loophole. Felice, only feigning meekness, thanks him and breaks his collarbones.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Orientation lecture in the Petit Salon
Group Green meets for the first time and Counselor Mishima presents a holographic tour of Pliocene geography and explains the weapons ban and available information on earlier travelers.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Elizabeth probes Landry
Elizabeth tries a redactive probe on Landry, who stares directly back at her, leaving Elizabeth uneasy.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Setting up the decamole cabin
Amerie and Felice practice with their survival gear in the simulated meadow, inflating a decamole cabin and furniture in under ten minutes.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Felice's confession and offer
Felice tells of her Acadie ring-hockey career and ostracism, admits maybe deliberately injuring players, and offers to protect Amerie. Amerie, upset, walks out; Felice says they need each other.
- Book 1 · Ch 19Last night terrace talk
After the last supper, Group Green's members discuss metapsychic powers, Pliocene coal and plans, Felice's unhappiness, and Aiken's Connecticut Yankee costume as a storm gathers over Lyon.
- Book 1 · Ch 20Group Green enters the time-gate
At five hundred hours Mishima leads the eight travelers through the garden to the Guderian cottage cellar. Bryan, Stein, Richard and Felice are translated first.
- Book 1 · Ch 25Epone's metapsychic test and revelation
Epone tests Amerie with the coronet, then reveals the Tanu plan to use sterilized human women to bear Tanu children. Felice evades testing; both are to travel to Finiah.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Felice and Amerie join; Richard treated
Felice and Amerie are brought in, learn of the collars, share news of Epone and the broodmare fate, and Amerie drugs the catatonic Richard.
- Book 1 · Ch 29Rest stop and escape plan
At a fort, Felice, Amerie and Claude ask Richard to find the Pliocene polestar to support their escape plan. Richard grudgingly agrees.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Felice demonstrates control over the chalikos
Felice shows Amerie she can override the caravan's chalikos and make them break formation, then makes Amerie's mount copy hers, unnoticed by the guards.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Felice dominates an amphicyon
Felice compels an exhausted bear-dog to pace beside her chaliko, learning it is harder than controlling chalikos, and plans to use the technique at the end of travel days.
- Book 1 · Ch 31Arrival at the sleeping-stop fort
The caravan reaches a palisaded fort; Waldemar announces a rest until sunset, Amerie is asked to say Mass, and Epone takes Dougal away.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Felice outlines the escape plan
Felice wakes Claude and Richard, forces Richard to cooperate, and reveals the hidden golden dagger she will use.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Firvulag illusion on the lake
Glowing spider shapes approach the caravan; Epone shatters them, and the soldiers say they were Firvulag.
- Book 1 · Ch 33The ambush
At dawn, to Basil's signal, amphicyons attack Epone and her chaliko; disguised Richard kills Waldemar.
- Book 1 · Ch 33Bear-dogs destroy the soldiers
Amphicyons attack and slaughter the soldiers; Richard, Basil, Dougal and the ronin kill the survivors, and the last bear-dogs leap off the cliff.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Escape by lake
The freed prisoners split: most sail south with Basil toward the Jura, while Group Green's remnant sails east, then hides among marshy islands from Tanu catboats.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Yosh parts ways
Yosh refuses to join either party, gives the Green group tools and a bow, and stays to deal with Tat's body before heading north alone.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Trek into the highlands
The Green group lands in a swamp, passes a rhino herd, crosses the fort trail and climbs a ridge, where they camp and Felice spots the distant fort's fires.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Felice confronts Amerie
Felice reveals her secret plan to use the golden torc to free the slaves, Amerie apologizes for the group's silence and promises help, and Felice presses her for more than protection.
- Book 1 · Ch 35Amerie retreats
Rejecting Felice's advances, Amerie falls, reopens her hand wounds, and returns to the campfire as Felice laughs in the dark.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Sabertooth encounter
While resting in a stream pool, the group is approached by a sabertooth; Felice mentally calms it and it withdraws.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Amerie nearly drowns
Crossing the decamole bridge, Amerie's leg spasms and she falls into rapids. Felice rescues her, Claude revives her, and her arm is found broken.
- Book 1 · Ch 37Camp dispute and Claude's burial
Richard rejects Felice's torc plan and declares he will go north. Claude walks off and buries Gen's ashes at a spring, and befriends a small cat.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Refuge in the Tree
Madame Guderian shelters Group Green's remnant with the Lowlives in the giant sequoia, explaining Firvulag help, torcs, and the exotics' nature, and proposes they join her plan.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Iron discovery
After Claude recounts Epone's death, Burke and Madame test the dagger theory; the group resolves to smelt iron weapons and try iron chisels on gray torcs.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Fitharn tells Brede's Tale
Fitharn recites the tale of the Ship's death, the Grave's consecration and the first Great Ordeal, hinting at aircraft and the Spear at the Grave.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Expedition chosen
Madame decides a seven-person party must set out immediately to find the Grave, leaving Amerie behind to heal the people.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Madame persuades Richard
Madame uses telepathic pressure and compassion to overcome Richard's refusal; he agrees to join the expedition and fly the aircraft back.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Audience with the Lowlife expedition
Yeochee receives Madame Guderian's party. She presents Claude's identification of the Ship's Grave and plans to retrieve the Spear and a flyer to attack Finiah. Yeochee approves and writes a note ordering Sugoll to guide them.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Firvulag betrayal planned
After the humans leave, Fitharn explains the Firvulag plan to use the humans, control Felice, and have them die heroically so the Firvulag keep the Spear and Sword.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Boar ambush on the marsh trail
A giant Kubanochoerus boar charged the line of hikers, killing Stefanko and wounding Burke. Fitharn drove it into the swamp where Felice and Richard killed it.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Party splits
Madame Guderian decides Fitharn will take the wounded Burke back to Amerie while the others, including Martha, continue toward Sugoll and the Danube.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Party heads for the river
After Madame's tale, dusk falls and Felice urges crossing the Rhine before moonrise; Claude and Madame climb down to the water.
- Book 1 · Ch 42Crossing the Fungus Forest
The five travelers spend eight days through the fungus-filled Black Forest, then emerge with relief into a sunny alpine meadow with a tarn.
- Book 1 · Ch 42Signal exchange with Sugoll
Flashes from the Feldberg slope are the interrogation signal; Madame answers with the mirror code Fitharn taught, and Sugoll's people reply, so the party may proceed to meet him.
- Book 1 · Ch 43Meeting with Sugoll
Led by the Bogle to an alpine meadow, the travelers are overwhelmed by the Howling Ones' mental projections, and meet Sugoll, who delivers his challenge by revealing and hiding his true form.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Rama's gift of fruit
A wild rama leaves two fruits near the camp; Claude trades her salmon, and she takes it away to her family.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Arrival at the Ries crater
After a hot trek, with Martha hemorrhaging and carried on a litter, the party reaches the pass and sees the crater rim, confirming Richard's navigation.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Lugonn's tomb and the Spear
The party finds Lugonn's skeleton without a torc; Felice rages and is subdued, then they recover the Spear and powerpack and move to Number Four Aircraft.
- Book 1 · Ch 45Entering the flyer
Felice runs ahead and goes hunting. Richard and Martha find the Spear by the flyer and enter the aircraft to examine it.
- Book 1 · Ch 46Planning the Finiah raid
Around the campfire the group discusses the flyer, the Spear and the air raid on Finiah. Madame overrules Claude's objection and insists on providing a metapsychic screen; Claude will fire the Spear.
- Book 1 · Ch 47Madame returns with the Spear
After a day of watching circling raptors, Amerie spots the high aircraft; it lands at Hidden Springs after dark, and villagers hide it with nets. Madame announces they have brought the Spear, and the bleeding Martha is rushed to Amerie.
- Book 1 · Ch 48Felice left behind
Claude refuses to take Felice on the flyer, promising to fetch her later; she flees in tears to Madame's cottage.
- Book 1 · Ch 48Crash and rescue
The injured crew crash-land; Felice carries Claude out and Amerie assures him they will recover.
- Book 2 · Ch 5News of Felice's revolt
Gomnol questions Bryan about Felice, revealing that her caravan revolted en route to Finiah, killing Epone and the gray-torc escort; Felice and three others remain free.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Felice takes the golden torc
In Velteyn's ruined bedchamber, Felice removes the golden torc from a dead gold-torc woman, cleans it and fastens it on, awakening her powers. She laughs triumphantly over the ruined city.
- Book 2 · Ch 14Aftermath of the sack of Finiah
Three days into the Truce, Finiah lies in ruins; Lowlives continue fighting loyalist humans and force captured grays to choose between torc removal and death.
- Book 2 · Ch 15Ayfa scouts the Lowlives and Felice
Using farsight, Ayfa sees the human survivors, refugees and Felice wearing a torc and looting armor, then decides to leave for home.
- Book 2 · Ch 18Farewell supper and planning
On the eve of departure the eleven expedition members and Kawai dine at Madame's table, quarrel over who should go, and agree to bring the dead Spear south for Aiken Drum to recharge.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Disguised party arrives at the Roniah Fair
The Lowlife conspirators, disguised as Finiah refugees, sign into a campground at Roniah. Felice briefly reveals her coercive power as Lady Phyllis-Morigel. They get a secluded site on high ground.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Council of war at the campfire
The party plans to send the torc-factory strike-force to Muriah by riverboat. Claude's alternative plan changes the time-gate action. They agree to try contacting Aiken Drum by farspeech through Elizabeth.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Plans for the river escape settled
The expedition agrees that Felice leaves at dawn with an escort and a noon broadcast is set, while the others scout a boat at the Roniah wharf.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Harry revived and wrecked rapids run
The group revives torc-less Harry to pilot through rapids. Felice controls him, but panics at a falls; Harry breaks free and crashes the boat, which is damaged but survives.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Amerie and Felice at night watch
Felice propositions Amerie, who refuses and prays for her. Felice, shaken, regains some confidence. They then sight a Tanu Hunt searching for them across the river.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Passing the boats into the rapids
At dawn the party meets three boats waiting at a chute, passes them with Harry forced to wave, and enters the next twenty-kilometer rapids.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Harry dies under Felice's mental grip
Felice coerces skipper Harry through the rapids. He resists with a last surge of rage and dies, leaving the boat spinning in an eddy.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Felice flies the riverboat out of the eddy
Felice takes the wheel and lifts the boat with her PK, then flies it over the Rhône's terminal waterfall and the mist-covered lake. Amerie and the Indian Chief ask her to descend, and she does.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Aiken deceives Felice's group
Aiken meets the saboteurs in a cave, talks Felice out of attacking him, offers a false plan and map, and leaves with the Spear, then reports to Gomnol that they bought it.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Felice's group rejects Aiken's plan
With no word from Aiken, the saboteurs suspect a trap and decide to assault the torc factory that night by a different route through the front, led by Felice.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Infiltration of the Coercer headquarters
Felice, disguised as Lady Phyllis-Morigel, and her saboteurs coerce their way through the Guild keep, killing a Tanu woman, and reach the torc factory doors.
- Book 2 · Ch 28Ambush at the torc factory
Felice melts the doors and the Host of Nontusvel ambushes the party. Most saboteurs die; Felice is subdued by the combined Host; Amerie, Burke and Basil are captured.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Culluket breaks Felice's body but not her will
Culluket tortures and violates Felice, extracting secrets for Nodonn, but cannot make her cry out; he fits her with a gray torc and sends her to a deep cell.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Balloon escape of Stein and Sukey
Creyn brings Stein and Sukey to Elizabeth's balloon on the mountaintop and reveals Felice, whom Elizabeth is invited to save. The balloon then rises over Muriah and drifts southwest toward Gibraltar.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Felice awakens free and plans revenge
Felice wakes in the balloon, discards her dead torc, her mind regrows with full powers, and she resolves to destroy the Tanu, landing by a fjord to enlist Stein and Sukey.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Stein's torc is removed
Felice cuts off Stein's torc while Sukey heals his mind, leaving him whole.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Felice proposes flooding the Med Basin
Felice reveals her plan to open Gibraltar, and exposes that Thagdal had Sukey tortured while pregnant. Stein, enraged, agrees to reconnoiter.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Felice destroys the fjord
Felice blasts the fjord entrance and cindercone, burying the channel to create a dam; Stein is shocked into accepting that Pliocene Exile is real.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Felice breaks through the Gibraltar isthmus
Guided by Stein, Felice carves a crevice through the isthmus, falters, then draws on new power to unleash a shockwave; the Atlantic begins to flow through as a waterfall.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Felice finds a Redactor knight's tore
Felice, as the raven, detects gold in a flooded cave and finds a dead Redactor knight. She fears it is Culluket, but sees the armor is not his. She rips off the tore and takes it.
- Book 3 · Ch 2The devils answer Felice's call
Felice calls mentally to Culluket and the devils answer. Terrified, she shields herself and flies to Mount Mulhacén, escaping their tracking, then returns home with the tore.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Recollection of Felice's rescue
Last fall, Marc combined the psychoenergies of the rebels and their children and gave them to Felice Landry, so the Empty Sea filled.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Elizabeth reveals Felice is alive
Elizabeth tells Amerie that Felice survived and describes her torture by Culluket, her psychosis and her calls to him.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Felice robs the dead twin
Felice, as a raven, finds Kuhal mourning poisoned Fian in North Africa, takes Fian's tore, taunts Kuhal and spares him.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Felice returns to her treasure lair
Felice flies to Mount Mulhacén, is greeted by animal friends, and adds the tore to her hoard, which includes the dead Spear.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Night farsearch locates Felice
Elizabeth and Creyn farsearch, finding Burke and Sharn, then spot Felice over Mount Mulhacén calling Culluket. They discover a multiple human-mode transmission from the Devils, who promise to come in fifteen days.
- Book 3 · Ch 14The Europe expedition is debated
The young people propose capturing Felice, taking Europe and rebuilding the time-gate. Marc learns Elaby is the planner, permits four to go, and sends Owen Blanchard instead of Hagen.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Felice's failed hunt and torture flashback
As a raven, Felice kills a gazelle but feels no pleasure, then collapses into a vivid memory of torture by Culluket.
- Book 3 · Ch 16Elizabeth offers healing
Elizabeth contacts Felice mentally, warns her that the approaching humans are liars, and offers to heal her. Felice wavers, then flies off crying Culluket's name.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Felice destroys Vaughn
A giant raven lands by the dead rama; Vaughn aims at it and is torn apart. Felice appears on the ketch and rocks it with a surge, injuring Jillian.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Attempt to docilize Felice exposed
Owen deceives Felice with promises of healing and queenship, and Elaby and Cloud demonstrate the rigged equipment. Elizabeth's voice warns Felice not to use the headset, exposing the trap.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Mental contest over Felice
A shapeshifting redactor offers to heal Felice and denounces Owen's group as would-be enslavers. Owen counters, urging her not to trust the redactor. The figure turns into a raven and flies away.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Felice agrees to be healed
After Elizabeth shows Felice her brain, opens her own mind to prove her sincerity, and explains the plan using the room without doors, Felice agrees to stay and undergo redaction.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Felice attacks Elizabeth's mind
Felice's mind-grip lunges at Elizabeth, who blocks it with an adamant barrier; Felice claims she did not mean it.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Abaddon contacts Aiken
Abaddon farspeaks Aiken from across the Atlantic, reveals Felice's hideout near Mount Mulhacén, and they agree to a deal including a stronger metaconcert program and a rendezvous at the Río Genil in a week.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Final descent into Felice's mind
Elizabeth, aided by Dionket and Creyn, spends six hours redacting Felice's madness while the psychic discharge devastates Black Crag's surroundings.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Felice awakens sane
Felice wakes sane, rejects being like Elizabeth, chooses herself, thanks Elizabeth and vanishes, leaving Elizabeth drained and tempted by death until the Tanu healers comfort her.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Felice appears to Amerie
At dawn Felice, claiming to be cured, appears in the Hidden Springs chapel during Mass and asks Amerie to come with her; Amerie refuses, citing her vow.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Amerie refuses Felice and is killed
Felice begs Amerie to leave with her. When Amerie refuses, Felice seizes her with psychic force, burns her and stops her heart, then demands she choose her. Amerie dies during a Mass, telling Felice mentally that she loves her.
- Book 3 · Ch 35Felice departs for Spain
After Amerie's death, Felice rages and mourns, then becomes a raven and flies to Spain to give the other lover his choice.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Elizabeth warns Aiken that Felice is loose
Elizabeth farspeaks Aiken that Felice escaped and killed Amerie, urging him to abort the Quest and hide Culluket. Aiken refuses, curses her, and proceeds after scans suggest Felice is far from Mulhacén.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Felice searches for Culluket
Felice flies as a raven across the Tanu cities seeking Culluket, finding them emptied, and turns home to Mulhacén at day's end.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Felice finds her lair destroyed
Felice returns to Mulhacén and finds her home buried and her treasure stolen. She blames Culluket and Aiken Drum and flies in pursuit.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Aiken kills Felice with the metaconcert
Aiken blasts Felice, who d-jumps overhead as Owen Blanchard's death breaks the shield. Marc Remillard patches it and Aiken's second full blast destroys her. A cliff collapses into the Genil.
- Book 3 · Ch 39Cloud analyzes the fight with Felice
Cloud explains Marc likely set Aiken up to die via the metaconcert program, that Felice d-jumped and may have hurt Marc, and warns that Aiken is a common threat to Tanu and humans.
- Book 3 · Ch 40Aiken confronts Mercy
Aiken accuses Mercy of serving Felice, taunts about Nodonn's plans, and warns she may engineer her own defeat; Mercy stays and gives herself to him.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Elizabeth entombs the Duality
Elizabeth finds the fused minds of Felice and Culluket under the rockfall and, with Minanonn's help, plans to seal them in the room without doors before healing Aiken.
- Book 4 · Ch 1Marc's report after the failed experiment
Gravely injured, Marc tells his helpers the experiment was a qualified success: Felice is gone, Aiken Drum damaged. He orders the CE rig repaired and sent to Europe for a plan to destroy the time-gate site.