- "Beastmonger Shill, an oversized woman endlessly bustling up and down the rows of tiny stacked cages, on her flattened heels a piping, scurrying swarm of little creatures."
- ―Shill and her miniatures pets
Beastmonger Shill was the outsized proprietor of a shop which sold miniature animals, located on Adventure Alley in a northern section of Letheras. Some examples of the animals that Shill had bred/developed/'mongered' were: ankle-high guard dogs; big-toe-sized cats; thumbnail-sized mice; very tiny birds; and mosquito-sized vampire bats.[1]
In Reaper's Gale[]
Beastmonger Shill's shop had become the site of a hidden entry — with Shill as its guardian — into the Rat Catchers' Guild's new secret headquarters.[2] Tehol Beddict travelled to Adventure Alley to meet with Chief Investigator Rucket of the now-outlawed Guild. But first he stopped in a number of shops, including the Half-Axe Temple of Herbs and Grool's Immeasurable Pots. He exited those shops bearing a fat root and a beaker, which he presented to a delighted Shill. The items were part of an elaborate system of coded trades among the shops on Adventure Alley that procured him entrance to the underground chamber where Rucket awaited. Shill used the root and beaker to dole out a yellow-smelling tea to her broods.[3]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US TPB p.85-86
- ↑ Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US TPB p.87
- ↑ Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, US TPB p.86-88