Peter Scattergood is the kind of boy that everyone knows is going wrong, very wrong. He hasn't met anyone that he can't defy and insult or any rule that he can't ignore. Then he causes a nasty accident and seeking to escape hides in a deserted cellar underneath his school.The cellar is occupied by a dormant being of unknown origin. The being, which calls itself an eidolon, denies that it is any kind of ghost, spook, spirit, angel or anything supernatural...