Björn Hammerson was a dwarf. It was genetic, which is to say he was actually a Dwarf.

He worked construction in New York, and had always liked doing basements the best. Although he had no real fear of heights, when standing on a girder on the sixtieth floor of some new building frame there was something that popped its head up out of the primordial sludge of ancestral memory and said “Wouldn’t you much rather be underground?”.

At first glance most people assumed he was heavily into hip-hop, but the bling was again the influence of that ancestral voice, this time saying “Shiny!”. In actual fact he rather liked melodic death metal.