Twenty Cicada

Role, aliases, and summary hidden by structure-only view.

also known as Swarm, ikantlos-prime, adjutant

Ikantlos-prime, Nine Hibiscus's second-in-command

Nine Hibiscus's second-in-command who deduces the alien fungal hive mind, volunteers to eat the fungus and join the collective, and is absorbed as 'Swarm' in the postlude.

In A Desolation Called Peace (Arkady Martine, 2021)