Keeper of the Bone Road · female
Mammuthea keeps the Bone Road – the long dry path west to the edge of the Weeping Groves where the elephants of Myrmecopolis go to die – and no ivory leaves it without her consent. Under Article III of the Mandate, flesh is taken but what the dead give may be harvested; the ants of the Resin Quarter may take tusk and bone to brace their vaults and arm the bulls, but only with the Bonekeeper's leave. She gives it slowly, bone by bone, and she remembers every one. She is gentle, unhurried and ver...
From the simulation The Chitinous Mandate.