The Kernel

Florence Harrison 

Puck had given the day-to-day management of Johnstone Pharma to Charley just three weeks after the exchange. He returned to his usual business back home: the seed bank.

It was of an impressive size and housed many rare species he documented and kept ‘alive’.

Goober would jokingly refer to him as ‘the Kernel’ as Puck’s passions had grown into obsession, with both the collecting and disseminating of his hybrid and heritage saplings, seedlings and coveted seeds.

Pouches and packets of crop ‘gold’ would mysteriously manifest into farms whose harvest had fallen genetically infertile.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances