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Warrant040 / 099
At largeThe Midwife
Hunt 40: The Handing Door
PeopleTessel
LensHorror
LeadVesk
RegionThe Oon
RunMiddle Run
Hunt 40 · Horror
The Handing Door
The Midwife · Tessel
The Brood delivers ten thousand babies a day, and the Midwife has scented one of them to her own honeycomb and stopped handing it back. Vesk, who can't read a single sign in a hospital written in smells, has until the six-hour shift change to take an infant from a terrified nurse.
On the boardDelivers ten thousand babies a day and doesn't like giving any of them back. Terrified of an empty room.
WhereThe Brood (street name: the Cradle Hum), The Oon. A hospital that delivers ten thousand babies a day.
How it feelsHumming walls, warm light.
House ruleA Tessel cut off from the hive scent starts to come apart within a day, so no one works alone.
Leads the huntVesk Mirat
PeopleTessel, from Zilmo
The people
Tessel
A hive species with a queen, workers, and a shared scent. They can't stand being alone.
Loyal, helpful, and unsettlingly polite.
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