Alma/Introduction

Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable."

"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." J. B. S. Haldane

Alma Hunter is a visiting behavioral ecologist from the Cognition and culture in New Caledonian crows research group at the University of Aukland. Due to life's exigencies she has a grant to study the corvid population in Detroit. Her magery is all mixed in with the exigencies and her field of study.

She has recently obtained guardianship of her niece.

She is not a mad scientist, but if she were she might come out to people like this. It would make that Haldane quote go to eleventy.

She currently has a girlfriend (and her girlfriend's boyfriend) on the other side of the world. She doesn't know how the LDR is going to work. (also she often got called out by people in the undergrad student union for infantilizing people by calling them girls and boys and she tries not to do that but sometimes she forgets and the 'girlfriend, boyfriend' slips out instead of... what? significant other. it just rolls off the tongue)