How It All Goes Down
The Graverobber
- Karou meets up with Izîl in the markets of Marrakesh. He's a nice old man, but a little nuts.
- What makes him crazy is that an invisible creature named Razgut rides around on his back. And that creature wants to lick Karou.
- Yeah, just a little crazy.
- In the shadows nearby, Akiva watches as Karou and Izîl talk teeth.
- Karou is dismayed that Izîl's teeth are of such bad quality. They're "the teeth of a people who had gnawed at tough food, smoked pipes, and been unacquainted with toothpaste" (13.55).
- None of them followed proper brushing advice, we guess.
- Izîl has some baby teeth (not his own), which Karou refuses to take, even though Izîl says that Brimstone requested them once.
- A few of the teeth do meet Karou's satisfaction, so she pays him for those.
- Then Izîl tries to ask Karou a question about saving himself from Razgut. Izîl ends up fighting with the invisible creature on his back and falling over.
- Karou helps him up, but the invisible thing licks her neck. It weirds her out and she leaves.
- He calls out to her, telling her that a bruxis would save him.
- A bruxis is the wish of all wishes, the uberwish, and the only way to get it is "with one's own teeth. All of them, self-extracted" (13.81). Eek. Can you wish for more teeth?
- Karou's had enough of this crazy pants, so she leaves for real.
- But again, something holds her back: a commotion behind her.
- That invisible thing on Izîl's back, it ain't invisible anymore.