Venn Pell
Venn carries replacement lamps disguised as kitchen utensils after someone bought the obvious laboratory stock.
The person
Venn carries replacement lamps disguised as kitchen utensils after someone bought the obvious laboratory stock. He enjoys the deception more than his mother approves. One customer offered enough silver for the entire load to save the workshop. He refused, then spent the walk home calculating whose wages his refusal had endangered.
Place in the family
A child of Mira Pell and Yara Pell; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Pell.
Yara records not only experiment results but interruptions, weather and who touched each object.
The Pells are instrument makers without noble rank.
Mira accepted the prince’s invitation only after securing the right to publish a failed experiment.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.
Sena marks ropes with colored threads identifying the crews who made them.