Like all new engines, some stutter and struggle to start, others start and don’t run smoothly. Always the waiting and the fixing and the revisit. A new attempt.

Constance wanted life a smooth plain, no corners, no waves, no features. A permanent featureless plateau. Like that she was frozen. A stutter. No motion, a paralysis, but SAFE! All candy, no pain. No pain all still. All still no life. No life all death. Frigid.

Silver and copper are anti-bacterial.