Cookie is a raider and acquaintance of Frosnik Volzen. He walks with crutches after losing a foot and wears the orange pelt of a Jasger dire wolf.
¶ Life among the Raiders
Cookie shares the raiders' harsh belief that survival depends on taking whatever food, valuables, or liquor a person can carry. When Frosnik worries that his son Branel Volzen rejected a stolen gift, Cookie argues that children see only the theft rather than the danger their parents faced to obtain it. He expects Branel eventually to accept the same worldview because nobody will simply provide what the raiders need.
Cookie's advice reinforces the culture Frosnik is beginning to question: deprivation is treated as justification for raiding, while the people harmed by those raids disappear from the moral calculation.
¶ Death
Cookie is killed by plasma fire during the assault on the raider settlement. Frosnik sees his charred body while deciding whether to continue fighting or surrender for Branel's sake.
¶ Appearances
- A Deadly Little Crisis — advises Frosnik and dies during the attack.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — the events of the short story also appear within the novel's narrative.
¶ See Also
- Frosnik Volzen — An Eisgait raider called Krampus whose love for his son Branel brings him into conflict with the survival economy of his colony.
- Jasger Dire Wolf — An animal species whose orange pelt is worn by the Eisgait raider Cookie.
- Branel Volzen — Frosnik Volzen's son, whose rejection of a stolen Christmas gift challenges his father to confront the harm caused by raiding.
- A Deadly Little Crisis — A canonical Christmas story in which Jack and the Dominatrix II crew recover stolen supplies and confront grief, desperation, mercy, and second chances.
- Starship Dominatrix: Flesh and Steel — The third Starship Dominatrix novel follows the crew through rival AI nations, the War of Flesh and Steel, and the consequences of corrupted Talonorium.
- Assault On The Eisgait Raider Encampment — The Dominatrix II crew's lethal recovery operation against raiders who robbed an Eisgait colony.
- Eisgait Raiders — A desperate raider group that steals BioGel and winter supplies from an Eisgait colony.
- Humans — After the AI rebellion in 2053, the War of Flesh and Steel ended with humans controlling AIs through Autonomy Regulators.
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