Perrell is a scholar and historian. She is an employee of the Bountiful Venture Company. Even if she weren’t, she would still have volunteered to join the colony out of academic interest. Her responsibility is to chronicle daily events in Talmandor’s Bounty and provide Ramona with scholarly advice on the nature of any ruins or ancient and valuable relics. She also sees it as her duty to provide her employers with high-quality maps of the island.