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Annie

Depicted as a skull-headed bird on the monster card Katia left behind and Donut carried off the floor.

Story so far

Annie appears in this chapter as an image: the card Katia won on the previous floor depicts her as a skull-headed bird. It was one of only two things left on the table when everything else had been cleared, and Donut took it.

Alongside The Daddy Tax Bra that Elle claimed, the Annie the Crow Card is what Katia left behind for the survivors to carry off The Ninth Floor.

Appearance

Rendered on her card as a bird with a skull for a head.

Role

The subject of the keepsake card Donut takes from Katia's leavings.

Relationships

Katia — Owned the card depicting her.
Donut — Takes her card off the table.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 7 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 23
  • Katia's baby daughter from the memory, left behind in the dream and beyond the dungeon's reach in reality.
Chapter 24
  • Katia's would-be adopted daughter, a medically fragile nine-month-old, and also the name of her crow card.
Chapter 25
  • Left alone in the room with Shi Maria in the dream, after the spider returned but before Carl awakened.
Chapter 64
  • Katia's skull-headed bird totem, blood-soaked in the corridor fight before vanishing in a puff of smoke.
Chapter 79
  • The orphaned Icelandic baby Katia tried to adopt, and the name of the skull-headed bird card that now comforts her.
Chapter 82
  • The child from the dream whom Carl remembers alongside Katia while watching Mordecai hold Ruby.
Chapter 99
  • Depicted as a skull-headed bird on the monster card Katia left behind and Donut carried off the floor.
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