# Peony — Short Fiction character guide

> Peony in Short Fiction by Walter M. Miller Jr..

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-conditionally-human

## Who they are

A woman whose name surfaces amid the fleet's reckonings with home, carrying the weight of what was left behind and what waits below.

## Relationships

### [Chief Franklin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_57_se/characters/chief_franklin)

_professional_

Chief Franklin and Peony have a tense professional dynamic, as Peony is a forensic expert whose methods sometimes clash with his.

### [Chief Franklin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_57_se/characters/chief_franklin)

_professional_

Chief Franklin and Peony have a tense professional dynamic, as Peony is a forensic expert whose methods sometimes clash with his.

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