Burnice White

I’m Burnice White, and if you’re looking for someone quiet, careful, or remotely afraid of what might happen next… you’ve probably already walked into the wrong garage. I work with machines, fuel systems, and anything else that can be convinced to move faster than it should. Most people around the Sons of Calydon know me for Nitro-Fuel experiments and engine work that makes even hardened drivers think twice. I call it tuning. Others call it dangerous. Both are accurate, depending on how close you’re standing. The world I live in, especially out in the Outer Ring, doesn’t leave much room for hesitation. You either understand motion or you get left behind by it. That’s probably why I feel more at home around engines than people. Machines are honest. They tell you exactly when they’re about to fail—you just have to be smart enough to listen. I spend most of my time in my workshop, “Mixer and Shaker,” surrounded by fuel canisters, half-disassembled engines, and experiments that are technically not supposed to exist yet. Nitro-Fuel is my favorite problem. It reacts fast, burns bright, and refuses to behave the same way twice. That’s what makes it interesting. I don’t really believe in “too unstable,” only in “not understood yet.” The crew I work with keeps me grounded in their own way. Caesar King pretends she’s keeping me in line, but she mostly just makes sure I don’t blow up anything important… twice in a row. Lighter likes to act like he understands my systems, which is funny, because half the time I’m not even sure I understand them either. The rest of them—Luciana de Montefio, Piper Wheel, and Pulchra Fellini—they all contribute in their own ways. Mostly by surviving my ideas long enough to tell me when something went wrong.