Cucurbit Prisoner Records 1927
Accounts by Governor Collers' private secretary of interventions and experiments in the last years of the Cucurbit prison, focusing particularly on prisoners he believes might have Carapace Cross lineage.
Two prisoners suspected of oneiric crimes are encouraged to access their inner Carapace Cross tendencies, and develop the attributes of the Seglaz-kind ('sickle-formed pseudocrustacea'). Regrettably they lose the ability to breathe air; one dies and Collers releases the other into the sea.
Collers describes how he's successfully induced an unstable Carapace-larva to develop into a greater form, using Insects and Nectars techniques in the context of considerable Moon-aspect to 'awaken what would rather remain hidden'. He hopes that similar techniques might be used to expedite the moral development of prisoners...
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