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An old woman who lives in the forest and teaches both Katrina and Kira the arts of weaving. Annabella is immensely old, and thus respected for her wisdom. Like Kira, she is kind to others, even those like Matt who are often perceived as obnoxious. She is the first to tell Kira that there are no beasts surrounding their village. She dies mysteriously soon after telling Kira this.
Annabella Quotes in Gathering Blue
The Gathering Blue quotes below are all either spoken by Annabella or refer to Annabella. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 11 Quotes
Annabella laughed. "There be no beasts," she said.
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Annabella Character Timeline in Gathering Blue
The timeline below shows where the character Annabella appears in Gathering Blue. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 5
...mother’s death. Jamison notes that Katrina’s old teacher, Annabel, now so old that she’s called Annabella, can be used to teach Kira.
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Chapter 7
...do this, Kira says that she learns quickly. Jamison says that he’ll send Kira to Annabella, who lives in the woods. He also notes that Kira has plenty of time before...
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Chapter 8
...meets Matt and tells him that she wants to go to the woods to see Annabella. Matt wants to come with her, reasoning that she’ll need his protection. Kira says that...
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Kira and Matt walk through the forest to Annabella. As they walk, Kira asks Matt about his father. Matt can’t remember anything about his...
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...small cottage, inside which Matt sees an old woman. Kira enters the cottage, and finds Annabella sitting inside. She greets Kira, who introduces Matt and Branch. Annabella tells Kira to sit,...
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Annabella gives Kira a lesson in weaving. Each plant corresponds to a different color: red, yellow,...
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...learned the names of plants with which she can produce a large number of dyes. Annabella gives her a bag of colored threads, but tells her that she must learn to...
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Chapter 9
It is the evening after Kira visited Annabella. Back in her quarters of the Council Edifice, Kira examines the robe she is to...
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Kira falls into a schedule: she visits Annabella regularly, but spends most of her day working on the robe. She also begins to...
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Chapter 11
A short time after the events of the previous chapter, Kira visits Annabella in her cottage. She goes there alone, a little frightened, since Matt has grown bored...
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As Kira and Annabella boil coneflowers, Kira tells Annabella again that she was frightened about wild beasts on her...
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...hard to believe that beasts don’t exist, he suggests that he and Kira should believe Annabella, since her name has four syllables. Before they can discuss the matter any further, Thomas...
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Chapter 12
...gray or green, never blue. She longs for blue, the color of calm, and remembers Annabella telling her that there is blue “yonder.” As she thinks about “yonder,” she wonders where...
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Chapter 13
...excellent, and better than her mother’s. He asks Kira if she’s able to walk to Annabella’s cottage every day, and mentions that he’ll install a fire pit in the Edifice so...
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Chapter 14
...her conversation with Jamison, Kira wakes up groggy and prepares for her daily walk to Annabella’s cottage. Before she leaves, she notices that Thomas’s door is closed. He must be sleeping,...
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Kira walks to Annabella’s cottage. On her way, a woman named Marlena, who works at the weaving shed, greets...
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...yesterday, Marlena says — arrives at the weaving shed with Branch, and tells Kira that Annabella was taken to the Field earlier that morning. Kira is upset and surprised to hear...
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Back in her quarters, Kira finds Jamison waiting for her. He tells her, sadly, that Annabella has died. Kira, who’s suddenly uneasy around Jamison, does not mention Jo to him.
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Chapter 15
It’s the day after Kira learned of Annabella’s death. She is standing in her quarters with Thomas, looking out her window at the...
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Kira thinks about her conversation with Jamison yesterday. Jamison told her that Annabella had died peacefully in her sleep; she may have died because she’d completed Kira’s education....
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Chapter 20
...cloth. After stealing food from his mother in preparation for his long journey, he followed Annabella’s advice that blue was out “yonder.” With Branch, he walked through the forest, never encountering...
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Chapter 23
...themselves, can commission and control a vision of the future they want. Kira thinks of Annabella, who once told her that small woad shoots survive after a storm and go on...
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