The Well Deceived

"What sort of plot?" challenged Rattle witheringly."The worst possible," said Wisley. "Floater intends to utilise the school's science laboratories for the manufacture of a hypothetical 'second-gender': a monstrous race of beings with sexual characteristics entirely different from our own." "That is preposterous," said Rattle flatly. "What conceivable purpose could there be in attempting something so unsavoury, so unspeakably perverse?" William Riddle is a scholar at Bune, the ancient public sch