Polly Moon was one of those children that shine bright like the sun.
Inheriting both good looks and intelligence from both parents, she was more than the sum of their gifts.
Polly was a prodigy both in reading and in mathematics, she was also pitch perfect when it came to music. She only had to hear a tune once to be able to repeat it note perfect.
She started to read at the age of two, by the age of four she had read everything in her house, including all her father's mining engineering books, his few novels and all her mother's recipes. Toby Moon started asking his friends and colleagues if they had any reading material, anything! to assuage Polly's thirst for knowledge.
Lord Trevalen had an uncle, Sir Humphry Davy, who was a great scientist, one of his inventions had been tested out in the mines, it was called the Davy Lamp. August had written to his uncle telling him about this extraordinary child who read engineering tomes. Sir Humphry was very skeptical, but August had said that he would present the young girl to him when Sir Humphry was next in Cornwall at his family home.
Sir Humphry was working at the cutting edge of a
