# Dallona of Hadron — Short Fiction character guide

> Dallona of Hadron in Short Fiction by H. Beam Piper.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Dallona, Lady Dallona, the Lady Dallona of Hadron

**First appearance:** 0049-a-slave-is-a-slave

## Snapshot

A Venus-born noblewoman and scientist among the Akor-Neb, she doubts her own theories even as others look to her for certainty.

## Who they are

Dallona moves through the social rituals of Darsh with a scientist's habit of questioning everything, including herself. Men watch her with pleasure, servants treat her as an equal, and a dying noble hands out keepsakes as if staging a final performance. Her skepticism and her foreignness make her the natural center of a gathering where belief, trance-communications, and violence sit uneasily together, and her presence keeps the reader asking what is real.

## In the story

### [Last Enemy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/last-enemy)

Presents evidence of discarnate consciousness; under threat from Statisticalists; participates in defense.

### [Null-A.B.C.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/null-a-b-c)

Expresses doubts about her theories on alternate realities.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_24_se/chapters/ii)

Mentioned as having a theory; Dalla is a different character, but Dallona is referenced in the canonical list.

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