#(though I'd figured we could use the water and steam vents to generate the necessary electricity)

[ailelie]

Fairy tales when I was very little. I demanded stories constantly. My grandmother would make up new ones to keep up with the demand.

(There was a summer between fourth and fifth grade when I was obsessed with finding a way to create oxygen from water so that we could have underwater colonies (this after I discarded the idea of long tubes to the surface). I found a book that suggested electricity would work, but when I showed a teacher, she was acted like I was being very foolish and childish and so I put the idea aside. When I learned in high school that I hadn't misunderstood the book and electrolysis is actually a thing, I felt so vindicated).

(The underwater colonies would be stationed near underwater steam vents, btw, for heat and I had ideas for the barrier as well. I wanted something flexible for the outermost layer leading to something very rigid on the innermost. I was researching good materials for that outermost layer when my teacher made me feel like an idiot).

When I got a bit older (fifth grade, maybe fourth and it overlapped the above), vampires and serial killers. My first forays into the adult section of the library were for books about serial killers.