Status Updates From Agatha H and the Clockwork ...

This is why I prefer older protagonists. I do enjoy some YA, and I Definitely enjoyed it when I was a young adult, but the way that Agatha references her younger fantasies of her parents showing up to whisk her away "and tell her she was a princess or some other squirmingly embarrassing fantasy." and compares it to the reality of actually BEING the lost heir of a famous noble family...

So much "mad" science makes perfect sense. He didn't have a microscope powerful enough to see dust mites, so he built a machine to make them large enough to see with the naked eye. It's not his fault the mites are now the size of small elephants. He just over shot it a little.