Audiobook - The Memory Surgeon
JessieAshe for CELIA LANE
**Role Type:** Minor
**Estimated Word Count:** 150+ words
**Age Range:** 45-55
**Gender:** Female
**Character Description:**
André Palmer's long-serving executive assistant, Celia is normally the epitome of cool, unflappable competence. When we hear her, that competence has completely shattered—she's witnessed her boss being arrested in front of the entire executive floor and is barely holding herself together. Her voice is high, thin, frayed, stripped of its usual polish.
**Performance Notes:** Celia should sound like someone experiencing shock—normally professional, now completely undone.
- female adult
[Phone call to Vanessa immediately after André's arrest, voice cracking] "Dr. Thorne? It's André. They took him. The police, Dr. Thorne! Detectives. They came to the office. Just stormed in. They arrested him in front of everyone! She read him his rights. Right there. In the middle of the executive floor."
[Trying to provide information while barely coherent] "It's about Dr. Finch. The scientist. The one who vanished last month. They think André had something to do with it. They're saying homicide. A Detective Hardings. She was the one. She had this look… like she'd already decided."
