Short Fiction · Character
Anne
Norris's wife, dull-voiced and depressed, she opens the pound for Doctor Georges and watches her husband come home scratched and grim from the Delmont case.
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First appearance: Conditionally Human
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Norris's wife, who is deeply upset by his role in destroying neutroids and shows cold contempt.
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Anne is the quiet domestic anchor of the neutroid roundup, the woman who answers the door and notices the welts on her husband's cheek before he will explain them. Her flat, joyless tone and her unreturned smile suggest…
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