Senior medic, infirmary lead — first generation, age 46

Asha Pradhan

Senior medic, infirmary lead — first generation, age 46

Personality

Brisk, profane, surprisingly tender with patients and not at all with colleagues. She works through grief by reorganizing the supply shelves and has reorganized them four times this year.

Backstory

She was a paramedic trainee on the ship and inherited the infirmary at twenty-six when the senior doctor walked into the Long Sigh wind and did not come back. She has delivered eighty-three of the second generation, including Halden Yu, and remembers each birth weight.

Relationships

• feuds gently with Hanne Vasil over kelp poultices
• married to Jorin Berenger, the schoolteacher, for twenty-one years
• quietly furious at Bo Halversen for refusing a lung scan for six years running

Story Hook

She is hiding a recurrence of the grey cough in two of the second-generation foundry workers, trying to treat it before the council learns and quarantines the beacon work.