Aby Eyeshine has long made a hobby of developing an alternative fuel to power automobiles, and with the raising price of gas it has a new urgency. In short, it’s attracted the attention of R.L. (Never a good thing.)
He attempted to buy her shop to gain control of anything she created, and he was summarily rebuffed. Apparently he thought you could power cars with the Herd Thinners main product: dead herbivores. I guess to him, prey provides everything else in life; why not that, too? Kell patiently explained to him why that wouldn’t be efficient.
Synthetic fuels aren’t my area of expertise, but I E-mailed Aby that if she developed anything I could be her gateway into the research community. (I’ve gotten awfully good at writing grant applications.)
In other news, June came and went without Fenton’s parents pushing me into a wedding before I was ready. I wonder if you can develop fuel by harnessing the friction from future in-laws.
