Kettlewell's Test Tubes

Three plain glass test tubes stand propped in a wooden rack on the lab bench, their transparent cylinders catching the overhead work lights. Colby displaces one while mocking the skull's impossible provenance, his fingers brushing the glass that has contained nothing more exotic than chemical reagents or experimental virus samples. The tubes show faint residue rings from prior use but remain unremarkable—no labels, no extraordinary markings—yet they belong to a collection associated with Kettlewell’s research, repurposed now as props in the debate over the skull’s authenticity.