Mr Menagerie

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"The light binds. The light blinds. All things it places in a chain. Our place is our worth. Some accept; we liberated."

"I confess, I am amazed it has survived. My master was not tolerant of its various weaknesses. Its single-mindedness; its cleaving to antiquated custom. How it chafed at its chains."

Mr Menagerie, known as the Runt, is a Curator of the House of Rods and Chains.

The most rebellious of the seven Curators of this space crab, Mr Menagerie travels across the High Wilderness selling animals. This Curator once knew the secret of the stars, but it decided to "burn" the secret from its brain to avoid the attention of the Fire That Follows.