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Darrow's freed Red mother, who tends Silene's gardens as penance for surviving the mines.
Deanna, mother of Darrow, survived a life in the mines of Lykos and the death of her husband to see her son become the Reaper. Only eighteen years older than Darrow, she wears the years hard—joints worn, recovering from a stroke and heart condition eased by Republic physicians—yet is far stronger than in her days below. Now freed and living in luxury at Silene, she feels guilty to survive when her husband and so many wait in the Vale, and tends the gardens as a quiet penance.
Sharp-tongued and unimpressed by her son's politics, she insists his son Pax be taken to Mars so the boy never forgets that Red runs as deep in his blood as Gold.
A weathered Red woman only eighteen years older than her son, worn by years in the mines but ruddy with new life; her joints stiff, her manner brisk and unsentimental.
Darrow's mother; the family's Red conscience, anchoring his son to their origins.
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