A small pixie in the back of the bar responds "yes i have and i hear it is a dangerous creature"
To which Avery responds " while that has absolutely nothing to do with this" he begins to weave a tale occasionally taking a drink of the extract.
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Got it this character is a brilliant, slightly insane inventor who after sending a small bullet shaped shell of a craft made of a material that becomes brittle with lack of air into space he concluded that space has no air so then went in a air proof craft and crash landed nearby