Eustace

Eustace is a hypothetical figure invoked in dialogue during a tense laboratory debate about an ancient skull’s impossible provenance. The character serves as a sarcastic foil in Colby’s dry humor, referenced in two distinct contexts: first as a mock archeological subject buried impossibly under a volcano, then as an imagined conversational partner when Colby urges them to speak. Eustace’s absentee presence in the lab underscores the scene’s undercurrent of ridicule and imaginative dismissal, as Colby and Thea clash over empirical rigor versus unorthodox conclusions.