10 Thing You Didn't Know About Anthea

1. She was in a car crash when she was a child that killed her family, though she has no memory of any of them.

2. Because she was raised in a small orphanage where there was rarely enough seating for everyone, she developed a preference for sitting on the floor. Oftentimes, when she is truly trying to relax, reading a book on the floor is more comfortable than attempting to do so on the comfy couch.

3. She loves the Madeline books (and keeps them on her bookshelf even though they are children's books that she never reads anymore) but hates the broadway show Annie.

4. She doesn't have time to clean her house so she pays an exorbitant amount to an old from from her art thieving days, Kerowyn, to clean it for her. This friend also doubles as a point of contact for when she needs to call in favors from her art-thieving-days friends that even Mycroft doesn't know about. (She rarely uses these contacts because she wants them to stay secret and because not all of them are as loyal to her as Kerowyn).

5. The only way she can stand to drink coffee is with plenty of creamer and sugar in it.

6. She only ever keeps one plant at a time. It is kept on her desk at work in the hopes that (since she isn't particularly good with plants) it has a better chance of surviving where she spends most of her time. She names them even though they die often. Charlie, a Glechoma hederacea, is the longest lasting plant she has. He's stayed alive just over 6 months.

7. Everyone of her attempts at relationships have lasted for even less time than she's capable of keeping plants alive. She's decided to stick to plants for the foreseeable future.  They won't leave her because her job is so demanding.

8. She has tiny hands.

9. She learned to play the harp from one of the matrons that ran the orphanage. The woman left her the harp when she died. It's old and, perhaps, not the best out there but it's still a good quality. Anthea still has it and she finds herself preferring it to top make model (made from dark maple with hand-carved designs).

10. Her real name is Alana.