Agnes (Natural Selection)

Agnes, an elderly retiree, was the secretary of a birdwatching society in the Los Angeles area. She was also skilled at knitting socks. The Hripirt screener Mullnor accompanied Agnes and other birders on one of their expeditions, and was impressed by Agnes' knitting abilities. As her products suited Hripirts as well as humans, Agnes and Mullnor went into business together, calling their firm Earth Socks, and Agnes was deemed suitably productive to travel to the Hripirt homeworld.