Character · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

Annie

Two Annies: the baby with brain cancer in an Icelandic children's hospital whom Katia was refused, and died alone — her favourite and worst memory — and the skull-headed bird card from the eighth floor that comforts her, left for Donut.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 17 — Eleven hours
• Chapter 18 — The minor quorum; code red
• Chapter 19 — The ruling; the ceasefire ends
• Chapter 55 — Head Banger; Milk
• Chapter 69 — Interlude — Several days earlier; Interlude — Rosetta; Zarogoths
• Chapter 70 — City of Broken Dreams
• Chapter 87 — The Nothing has been broken

Arc

Baby Annie, brain cancer, a blue stuffed dog, eyes that do not focus, refused to Katia and dead alone a year later — her favourite and worst memory (ch. 17, ch. 69). Annie the crow with an infant's skull, Katia's card, comforts her in the dream (ch. 18, ch. 69), rides with Li Jun and Zhang (ch. 55), and is left on the table for Donut (ch. 87).