“It is the Professor-Wizard’s opinion that a being’s physical and metaphysical forms are divisible, in that the one can be set free of the other,” said Assistant Il-Bhig.

“I assume, since the Professor-Wizard is still quite visible, and audible, to us…that this has not yet been a success?” said Inspector Revilo.

“The first experiment relied on finding a songbird with a very high Ω value,” said Il-Bhig. “When we found one, the Professor-Wizard attempted to use the focused crystal nexus to seperate its physical from its metaphysical.”

There was a long silence. “Well?” said Inspector Revilo. “Was the Professor-Wizard successful?”

“The bird is invisible now. It still sings, and we can occasionally see seeds disappearing, but it seems to be quite physical still, and we have not bee able to recapture it for some time. The Professor-Wizard does hold out some hope that it will mate and produce half-visible offspring.”