"When I was six years old," she says, "my mother got sent to prison, and Uncle Stanley sold me to an orphanage that was basically a front for turning young girls into drug factories. That's what the slug's for--it produces some on its own, but not enough to be mass-marketed. They found that it's happiest in a younger girl; it makes thirty to forty times more in there."

Never mind how they discovered that. There are no regulations on research, where she's from.

"I don't eat much, but I don't need to. It takes care of that for me."