Anah Kahlo

"*It's Anah, not Anna.*"
―Anah correcting Noelle[src]
**Anah Kahlo** is a shy, cautious, honest healer and a member of Unit 919.

## Biography

### Early Life

Before joining the Wundrous Society, she grew up at a convent with the Sisters of Serenity, it is possible that Anah has no living parents or relatives.

At the Wundrous Welcome event prior to the Trials, Anah was bullied about living with nuns by Noelle Devereaux. Morrigan Crow stepped in at this point, which allowed Anah to get away quietly. During the Show Trial, Anah performed an operation on her patron, Sumati Mishra, removing her appendix and stitching her back up. She did all of this completely blindfolded. Her performance earned her first place in the Top Nine before Cadence's and Morrigan's performances and she ultimately made it into the Wundrous Society as part of Unit 919.

### Wundrous Society Years

#### Year One

Anah joined the rest of her unit for the inauguration ceremony at Proudfoot House. Following the ceremony she learned (along with her fellow unit members and their patrons) that Morrigan Crow was a Wundersmith, causing friction within Unit 919 for almost three quarters of the school year. Anah avoided Morrigan for the most part, sitting as far away as possible and never speaking to her.

Anah took a number of classes with other unit members including 'Decoding Nevermoor' and 'Recognizing Mesmerism,' as well as classes on her own, including one called 'How to Stop a Human Heart (Temporarily).'

Near the beginning of summer, Unit 919 became the victims of blackmailers. She voted to ignore the notes and allow the blackmailers to tell their unit's secret, losing by one vote. Not long after, Anah and the rest of her unit witnessed Morrigan shoot a fireball from her mouth following an encounter with bully Heloise Redchurch.

During the first week back following the summer holidays, Anah was blackmailed into stealing some bedpans and rubber gloves from the teaching hospital. This upset her greatly as she wondered what the nuns would say if they knew. Because of other blackmail events, Scholar Mistress Dearborn called for an exam period. The 'Decoding Nevermoor' exam ended as an automatic fail for the entire unit as one team did not arrive back in time altogether. The majority of the Unit at this time started to completely ignore Morrigan.

Following Hallowmas, Anah attended the Wunsoc assembly with Unit 919 where Morrigan would reveal she was a Wundersmith to the present Wunsoc members, though this and the blackmailing would be revealed to be part of the Unit's Loyalty Trial in which Unit 919 would pass. This would prove to be a turning point as the unit was now on friendlier terms than before.

She joined other members of the unit on the last class of the year, Containment and Distraction, as she and Unit 919 watched in horror at the footage of almost getting attacked unknowingly at the inauguration ceremony. She goes with them to The Gathering Place and listened to Holliday Wu's speech about scaly sewer beasts. At the end of the event, after most of Unit 919 started threatening Heloise Redchurch for teasing Morrigan, Anah claims that she would cut her liver with a scalpel, shocking (yet pleasing) Morrigan.

#### Year Two

In Anah's second year, the Hollowpox pandemic started and she spent a lot of time in the WunSoc Teaching Hospital on sub-3. She is emotionally burnt-out by being around hollow individuals and Unit 919 notices that she is often crying.

## Physical Appearance

Anah is described as a plump and pretty girl with a sweet face and rosy cheeks. She tends to blush often when embarrassed. Her hair is golden blond and set in ringlets, which fall in length to at least her shoulders as she is able to tie her hair back with a ribbon.

## Personality and Traits

"*I'm* not *a nun. Not that there's anything* wrong *with being a nun.*"
―Anah, adding the second part quietly[src]
Anah initially seemed to be a rather meek person. When she was being teased Noelle, she kept on answering Noelle's questions honestly and retreating when she got the chance. After learning that Morrigan was a Wundersmith, Anah became terrified of her and avoided her as much as she could. However, Anah seems to have become less wary, demonstrating her sense of loyalty to her peers when she helped to stand up for Morrigan against some older scholars.

Anah was described as 'prim and panicky' by Morrigan in book three, as well as 'quiet and unobtrusive'. She can become quite agitated and concerned if she thinks someone is close to getting hurt. Anah has also been shown to be hardworking, and caring, as she spent much of her time in book three helping Wunimals who were sick. She did this despite becoming very tired and emotionally burnt-out.

"*Anah was deeply shaken by her own criminal exploits – she’d had to steal medical supplies from the teaching hospital (just a few pairs of rubber gloves and a bedpan, according to Cadence, but Anah had spent the rest of the week wailing about what the nuns who raised her would say).*"
―Narration[src]Anah lives by a very strict and inflexible code she inherited from the nuns she lives with. Her abhorrence of stealing is amusingly shown in her loyalty where she steals several trivial items. Anah will usually stand up for herself, she stands up to Miss Chery for being risky, Thaddea for not being unhygienic and inconsiderate (the gym clothes), and she stares down Morrigan for being pig-headed about the best way to approach the hollow Wunimal Major problem.

She also seems to be optimistic, suggesting that C&D might stand for ‘Cats & Dogs’.

## Abilities and Skills

### Knack

Anah's has a knack for knowing the human body very well. At the Show Trial she cut open her patron Sumati Mishra with a scalpel. She removed her patron's appendix, and then sewed her patron up nice and neat. All the while, Anah was blindfolded.

Anah has also been said to be able to cry on cue.

## Relationships

### Unit 919

Anah's outspoken goody-two-shoes nature sometimes annoys members of Unit 919 and she sometimes feels like an outsider. Surprisingly, her closest relationship is with Thaddea — joining with her and Francis for the Tricksy Lane practical and reading the same book at the Gobleian Library.

## Etymology

**Anah** most likely comes from the ancient Hebrew **עֲנָה** meaning "answer."

The German surname **Kahlo** has unknown meaning. However, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is a famous namesake.

## Trivia and Behind-the-Scenes

* Her door to station 919 is described as a small, arched, unvarnished wooden door at the end of the row.
* She isn’t good with languages, sometimes mixing up phrases and words.
* Anah is interested in anatomy and biology.
* Her favorite WunSoc class is How to stop a human heart (temporarily)

## Appearances

* *Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow* (First appearance)
* *Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow*
* *Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow*
* Silverborn: The Mystery of Morrigan Crow (Presumably)

## Notes and References

1. ↑ https://www.behindthename.com/name/anah

**Anah Kahlo** · Archan Tate · Cadence Blackburn · Francis Fitzwilliam · Hawthorne Swift · Lambeth Amara · Mahir Ibrahim · Morrigan Crow · Thaddea Macleod
Sumati Mishra · Arch's Patron · Baz Charlton · Hester Fitzwilliam · Nancy Dawson · Lambeth's Patron · Miss Mulryan · Jupiter North · Thaddea's Patron
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