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. As a new mage, she doesn't have a clear understanding of boundaries and where things fit. Anything that isn't "a default kind of thing" is magick. You can often see her around the city peeking through binoculars or scribbling in a notepad. If she didn't wear her hair in a ponytail it would get caught in the zipper of her vest of many pockets or fly in her face. "ptwww fppt plah", she says, as it gets in her mouth.

She has recently obtained guardianship of her niece.