Perriso

The breed of Sweety, the mount Prepotente and Jurgen ride through the Gasworks heat. A Perriso is a mammoth-sized, fat grey, monstrously ugly tapir-like beast carried on legs strong enough to hurl its own bulk across a ninety-metre gap, and it is ridden not from a saddle but from a square caged litter strapped to its back. Dong Quixote recognises the breed on sight, rates them wonderful mounts, and warns that they are deceptively fast for creatures that size — fast enough to overtake Carl's truck across an open factory floor and to gallop a wall as though it were level ground.

Book 8 appearances

• Chapter 63 — Dong Quixote names the breed when Prepotente's mount overtakes the truck and breaks its containment merge — a fat grey monstrously ugly beast the size of a mammoth, carrying a caged litter with its own shield over it.
• Chapter 65 — Sweety runs the wall track sideways on flaming feet as though it were flat ground, her litter rotating on its own to keep both riders upright.

Related entries

• Sweety (Creature)
• Prepotente (Character)
• Jurgen (Character)
• Dong Quixote (Character)

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