Gretel Greene

Gretel Greene was born in Bucharest. As a youth, she moved to Beaucaire, France to live with extended family after both of her parents were killed in the 1989 Romanian Revolution. Because of the political status of her parents, she was advised not to enroll publicly in school. Instead, she began working in the stained glass atelier owned by her family and took general lessons in the evenings.

As a young adult she found work with a touring magician as a prop assistant. For the next several years, she traveled Europe using her extensive knowledge of glass and mirrors to co-engineer new stage tricks. The partnership lasted for three years, until Gretel decided to settle in Geneva, one of several frequent tour stops. There she began her first scientific enquiries as a student of L'Université de Génève. Because of her ambiguous educational experience, formal enrollment at the university was not possible. Nevertheless, she was able to pursue work as a guest of the fac in several disciplines including plant biology, particle physics, sociology and anthropology. After several years of study, Gretel began working informally as a consultant at CERN while continuing her work at the university. She met her current research partner, Sailor, during this time.

Within the last decade, Gretel has relocated to the United States to work on the Sudan iron mine Proton Decay experiments taking place in Montana. After it seemed the team’s SU(5) theory work would remain unsuccessful, Gretel decided to form her own research laboratory dedicated to investigations of various scientific phenomena, including an alternate GUT. She contacted her old friend and associate, Sailor, who agreed to fund the new venture.

Sailor

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Born to a pair of organ makers in the late twentieth century, Sailor grew up thinking the player piano was controlled by her own hunger levels—a myth propagated by her mother who would bring her hot sandwiches after queuing up ragtime tunes.

As a young adult, she refused to speak for six years for reasons that remain undisclosed. When her ability to vocalize returned, she held a number of odd jobs including teaching assistant for university-level anatomy, head of video filing and labeling for National Geographic, and boat captain on a cranberry farm where she met the distinguished Gretel Greene (who was visiting the Centennial Cranberry Farm on a holiday).

Sailor is the last standing heiress to the Wellcome Trust, which boasts one of the world's foremost collections of medical artifacts intended to expand the public's understanding of medical science and history.

In 2007 Sailor agreed to fund Gretel’s private research in exchange for the privilege of co-directing laboratory experiments with Gretel in Austin, Texas. Sailor's research interests include synaptic plasticity, pulmonology, and general medical science.

Every time she says a bad word, a dead bird comes out of her mouth.