It has been said that I can’t seem to write a story without putting at least one painfully adorable little bundle of joy in it. In my fantasy stories I have Myn and (arguably) Mott. In my steampunk I have the curmudgeonly Wink. For Big Sigma, that role is undeniably played by the confoundingly cute Solby and Squee, the funks.
Readers of the main stories know that the funk was concocted by the demented inventor Karter, but there remains some question as to why and how the madman would do such a thing. Now we’ll find out.