I know loads of coppers and dealt with them a lot when I was a journalist - coppers are easy to write for; they tend to run on rails.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.

He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.