Between sips of bottled water and spirits, the conversation was pleasant until halfway through the salad course when each proudly acknowledged having just tainted all the world’s water sources with a secret formula: Tessadora’s, to make humans devolve to late Homo sapiens; Wrenlow’s, to neutralize human pheromones; and Albion’s, to make human genitalia mutate so that it no longer fit together.
Each was incensed not to have been consulted by the other two beforehand.
As for humankind: marked for extinction sooner than expected.