[Book Plot Summary]

Chapter 26

• Madame Dearborn was mauled by the kittens she uses to make the coats....?

• She’s like dying 

• But, before dying, she tells Kirilow hella shit 

• Turns out Isabelle chow and HoST are tryna make something to separate the mind from the body and need Grist DNA to do it hence the kidnapping of everyone

• Also, Kirilow’s in danger because she can make “forget me do” (the shit in the forgetting teas) which is v valuable in order to make more and better N lite which we don’t know what that shit is 

• We later find out N lite is basically a hallucinogen 

• The Cordova school is ground zero for the Grist Village 

• The starfish that they met hella early (like the Salty that gave Peristrophe tiger flu) is named Carmela Sweetwater and she died before the army attackt

• Ehmmm I think that’s it, yeah it’s wild lol 

Chapter 27

• Kora’s like, “Fuck, I don’t wanna go back to this damn school” 

• She runs into a procession of girls mourning the loss of Miss Dearborn 

• Modesta is shitty and tries to steal the scale Kora’s watching -- oh yeah, explanation, Kora uses her halo thing to insert scales to like watch YouTube and shit

• She also lowkey accuses Kora of knowing something about the missing catcoat 

• There’s an assembly tomorrow to figure out where tf this coat went and anyone not there will be beaten

• Kora’s hand is bleeding (from when she saved K2 from being attacked by dogs) and she’s taken to the nurse 

Chapter 28

• Kora goes to the doctor who reminds Kirilow of someone from the village 

• Kora’s hand is super infected and she has wet gangrene, so Kirilow has to amputate her hand 

• Kirilow tries to sleep but can’t, so she goes into the night  

Chapter 29

• Kora realizes her hand is gone and naturally freaks out 

• Tania and Velma are there and are unhelpful af 

• Velma keeps talking about this stupid ass tiger men party and it’s like “GIRL, tact!”

• She then slips whiskey into Kora’s tea, which causes Kora to involuntarily show the scale image of Isabelle Chow crying about her lover 

• Tania is pissed and says Myra will be MORE pissed. So she takes the scale from Kora and runs 

• Kora’s left there and there’s a catcoat underneath her bed, which she takes and sneaks into the night with 

Chapter 30

• Kirilow is walking at night and a weird man approaches her

• She defends herself, but the man says Calyx is at the party and it’s like fuckkkk

• He gives her a scale which p much has the deets to the party and, especially after seeing Kora is gone too, she goes into the night to attend

Chapter 31

• So Kora goes to this party for God only knows what reason. 

• She takes N-lite which is a drug with Myra who I guess we’re trusting now lol

• They gather with the tiger men to share collective memories and there’s something about wine and a rug and it was all just very trippy and confusing 

• Also, apparently cat coats are both alive and make you invisible...?? Cuz Kora found the lost cat coat and gave it to Myra 

• They run into K2 who leads them to an elevator with hella Grist sisters...?

• Kora is forced into an elevator and goes to a floor where she sees Charlotte and Uncle Wai...? And they’re saying something about how Wai shouldn’t have betrayed his brother (basically Charlotte used to be with Wai’s brother, but then left his ass for Wai. Wai’s brother was mad influential so it was like a weird exchange that left everyone confused)

• Then she goes back downstairs and sees Isabelle chow who asks her to rid of Marcus Traskin (leader of the 100 tiger men and pacific pearl parkade)

• Girl I’m so confused

Chapter 32

• Kirilow finds Kora and they go down an elevator together 

• Kora’s a starfish 

• Kirilow wants to GTFO, but Kora refuses to leave unless they kill Marcus (leader of the tiger men????)

• Kirilow agrees and they start to escape, cuz hoes are after them 

• They’re running and find K2 gagged and bound and Kora’s like, “please come” and he’s like, “nah”

• K2 is staying with the tiger men and says Marcus is a savior and also that their family really did cause this flu, Y I K E S

Chapter 33

• Surprise surprise, all of this was to bait Kora and Kirilow into being kidnapped 

• K2 reveals that he’s now gonna be in charge of the tiger farms (called Jemini) and how they’re cloning hoes, how Marcus has the cure, and, essentially, how they can basically infect hoes and exploit them into paying mad money to get better 

• Uncle Wai is Kora’s father and he and Charlotte are still alive 

• K2 basically rid of all of them to get money, which girl...

Chapter 34

• Kora and Kirilow are put in captivity together and it blows 

• Kora’s regrowing hand means she’s a Grist sister and she hates that 

• Kora keeps staring at Kirilow and it’s literally awful their captivity 

• Kora realizes the fish they’ve been eating every day for like 54 days while in captivity are probably her Grist sisters especially since she saw them go up as people and come down as fish on that elevator 

Chapter 35

• Calyx and random soldiers show up 

• Calyx is pregnant by K2, which feels illegal (what ever happened with this plot point?!)

• Kirilow and Kora go talk to Marcus Traskin who says that Kora is the real heir of Jemini (the tiger farms) and suggests she run it with him

• Kora’s like, “nah”

• K2 rolls up with his niggas and they kill Marcus in front of Kora 

• Kora and Kirilow escape back to the dancing school 

• The streets are barren af 

• Only Velma, Tania, and Myra are left —Tania and Myra will be back later 

• Kora and Kirilow decide they’re gonna go to Grist 

• Kora tries to tell Isabelle that Marcus is dead, but the only scale she found was one of Isabelle cussing someone out 

Chapter 36

• Kirilow is given fish and wine and she’s like, “girl, why me?” 

• Myra and Tania get back from wherever they were

• Velma searches for Kora, but gets taken 

• Kora shows up moments later 

• Then tear gas is thrown inside and then a machine gun/bomb scene plays out and our friends narrowly escape 

Chapter 37

• Kora, Kirilow, Tania, and Myra head to the border to get to the new origins archive in a different quarantine ring 

• Kora and Kirilow sneak into boxes and Kora is dumb and tries to watch from between the door of the truck she’s in 

• She sees people getting shot and horrible violence and it’s like wow my god 

• They get to the border and Tania waves her CEC privilege to get everyone through 

• But she, in the process, has to rejoin her family 

• The three (Kora, Kirilow, and Myra) then head to the archives and it’s all just very desolate and more than a little fucked up

Chapter 38

• So they get to this woman named Elzbieta’s house who, tbh, I don’t remember or care about 

• She feeds they asses and it’s implied that Myra has been there a lot and Kirilow weirdly owes her money 

• Elzbieta is creepy and like knows everything about Kora and their current situation. She even knows about the new Grist village 

• Kirilow ain’t leavin’ no time soon

Chapter 39

• Imma just assume that this shit is a dream 

• Kora like dreamt about hearing Delphine (her goat friend that everyone consumed) and reuniting with her mother 

• Then she experienced terrible violence

• She got her catcoat back and then met random sisters

• Almost got crushed by vegetables and then ate a weird dinner with weird sisters and her mom and Delphine were there and just like girl what?!

• Now they’re sleeping?!

Chapter 40

• Omg wtf are these final chapters 

• So Myra gets Kirilow and is like, “Kora’s been taken” 

• So they try to find Kora, but she’s gone 

• Myra also disappears out of nowhere 

• Kirilow is led to this weird door where she finds her mother double and is taken to a pool

• Peristrophe is there and it’s cute, but then Kirilow cuts out Peristrophe’s heart, which is markedly less cute 

• Turns out all of them have been downloaded to Eng...?!?!? 

• I think that means they’ve been separated by body and mind 

• Kirilow barely escapes and makes it back upstairs 

Chapter 41

• Bitch...lol

• So Kora is like in the abyss and then ends up with Elzbieta out of nowhere 

• Elzbieta is like, “oh girl, your father is on Chang, we must get you there” and Kora’s like, “girl, why you pullin so hard?!”

• Then they get caught in a net 

• Idk some other stuff happened 

Chapter 42

• Kirilow ends up meeting Isabelle Chow who is literally White Diamond from Steven Universe

• Isabelle talkin bout she needs Grist sisters probably for evilllllll

• Or to have healthy volunteers go to Eng

• Then they all go to dinner and Kirilow is forced to take spider dream (a drug?) and then a cork is shoved into a hole on Kirilow’s face?!

• Kirilow starts to have flashbacks of the Grist kidnapping 

• Umm Isabelle launches an atomic bomb into Chang...?!

• So that shit explodes and shit is flying everywhere 

• Isabelle gets hit in the head and is out for the count 

• Qué más...? Oh yeah Bombx, Kirilow, and Corydalis rush to find Kora and do find her, but she gets crushed and they’re about to lose her but, Kirilow starts cutting 

• Turns out Myra was the one who launched the rocket into Chang, which, girl, when?!

• Everyone except Myra takes the batterkite (think a rocket) to the new Grist village 

Chapter 43

• There’s like a 156 year time jump where Kora, now a starfish tree (idk), is telling the new Grist sisters about the past and how people used to only have one baby and how tiger flu could ravage anyone, which is why they must drink the Miracle Milk (think Miracle Milk) 

• Kora also talked about how she used to not know who she was, and the story of how Kora became a tree (because tentacles of the batterkite were planted??????)

• Kirilow is smoking weed, received a mushroom from Bombyx, and thinks about going back to the New Origins Archive to play with Peristrophe

• Eng orbits in the distance

[Book Thoughts and Feelings]

• Why did they even go to the tiger men party to begin with?

• How did Myra get involved with launching the rocket?

• Literally wtf happened for the last 100 pages 

• So catcoats are alive....?!

• I really didn’t care for all the gratuitous violence/gore, and the tone/pacing of the tiger men arc just didn’t make sense to me honestly - like why was K2 like that? What ever happened to Stash? What was the goal behind all of this and why couldn’t we see that unfold? It just was said, but I didn’t really understand K2’s MO. I just felt like the antagonists were lazy

• Also, how did Elzbieta just conveniently know everything/who tf was she?!