The Villain

Regalia Mason was a scientist. Underneath her white fox-fur, she wore a white coat. She analysed, quantified, measured, and experimented. Her latest experiment was to take Time from people who had too much of it - useless people, lazy people, unemployed people, children, perhaps, yes, children, perhaps, and sell the Time she had taken from them to people who didn't have enough of it - important people, rich people, successful people, old people, dying people, if they could afford it.

She had a file on her desk marked Top Secret. Inside were the rough outlines of her new idea.

Time Transfusions.

She was going to sell Time Transfusions.

Tanglewreck, by Jeanette Winterson