Peony Devere

A portrait of the character

The head of tactical on the UAV Stardancer. This puts her as 4th in line of command.

Appearance and Personality

An Asanii, with Abyssinian patterning and lilac coloration (light gray ticking on cream with mauve/pink nose/pads). Light green eyes. Soprano.

Recent History

Peony was on the bridge and in charge of executing tactical maneuvers (including weaponsfire) during the pirate battle in Sector Thaka Epta alongside the Cometfencer.

Peony was on the Stardancer in 'In Good Company' as Tactical Officer and thinks herself broken but hiding it. She was in the air when the Stardancer was impounded.

Quotes:

"Target practice is fun, shooting people isn't."

• "All hands, remain at battlestations. This is not a drill."

• Toward the end of In Good Company, this extensive quote from the middle of chapter 20,

Chapter 20 starts on page 299 of my kindle out of 345, the section devoted to Peony starts on page 305 and continue thru page 307.

• Right now I do not want to type all that in. But Peony is psychologically messed up, and doubts herself on several vital points. She is a very weak link.
• "I'm stuck here with Peony and she is having a mental breakdown."

• The reason she feels this way is in and around Kindle pages 177, 198, and 205 of 345
• Spent a large time wishing she was competent at fighting, and weeping, and not being effective.

• As far as she knew, everyone around her still thought of her as that decisive, competent department head. At least no one she'd seen while on duty had given her the uncertain sniffs and skeptical glances she now deserved. Which meant she was doing a good job of hiding just how broken she was on the inside. OH, she was talking to the medical staff,an going through the motions or reporting on to her therapy appointments. She was even honest when she spoke during them. But it wasn't helping and she knew deep in her heart, that it was never going to help. How could it when she didn't know which of the many things that was upsetting her was the thing that mattered? (Chapter 20)

mentions

In Good Company, chapters 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20

References

I need a reference to the Stardancer at In Good Company