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Jump was a soldier with the Medium infantry of the 9th Company, 8th Legion of the Malaz 14th Army, a member of the 12th squad under Sergeant Thom Tissy.[1]

In The Bonehunters[]

After the Battle of Raraku, Leoman led the Army of the Apocalypse westward to Y'Ghatan and the 14th Army followed. Adjunct Tavore Paran launched the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan by sending the army's sappers to breach the city's wall under the cover of night. The sappers were organised into groups with each group protected by a mage. Jump took on the role of sapper for the first time ever that night, and his group included Able, Bowl, Gupp, and Taffo with Balgrid as their mage.[2] Once the walls were breached Jump quickly returned to Thom Tissy's squad of medium infantry.

First into the city were the Malazan marines, followed quickly by the heavy and medium infantry.[3] Barely a street in and fearing an ambush, Sergeant Gesler ordered some of the freshly-made sappers from Tissy's squad, Jump amongst them, to clear some of the buildings ahead. Jump, Able, and Gupp, instead of throwing their sharpers, went inside a building to set them off. Gesler heard the sharpers then thought he saw the flames of a Burner. One of the three soldiers stumbled out, wreathed in flames and was shot by Gesler but too late to save those of Moak's squad running to help the man. They were all killed when his munitions pouch exploded. The building was engulfed in flames and the other two presumably perished in the flames inside. It is unknown if Jump was the soldier who had stumbled outside or one of the two who perished inside the building.[4]

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