Shelter is the other NARRATOR of the story. He starts all his chapters with 'Daily Routine Orders Number...'. He is an ex-soldier who has been discharged from the army on medical grounds and becomes a serial killer
- He calls himself Shelter to trick homeless people, because shelter from the stormy blast is ‘what they’re all looking for’ (2).
- He uses lots and lots of military terms to describe his actions – he goes on a ‘tour of inspection’ (11) to find ‘recruits’ (62), and after he kills them he describes it as a ‘brilliant operation’ (83). When he can’t kill Link, he says he’ll have to ‘devise fresh tactics’ (92).
- He calls homeless people ‘scruffy blighters’ (11), ‘dossers, junkies, and drunks’ and ‘garbage’ (12).
- He gets a cat to try and fool people that he’s kind and gentle, because a cat makes you think of ‘warmth, comfort, placid domesticity’ (16). And it works – later on Link says ‘what’s scary about a guy who can’t find his pussycat?’ (122).
- He calls Link ‘Link the Stink’ and Ginger ‘Laughing Boy number one’ (81).
