Experimental Result

It is in this climate that the unfortunate Zoltan Abbassid finally decides to reveal the results of his secret experiments. Ella participates by setting up her latest device near the hives, and sets it running while Jacob opens up the sealed wood boxes.

As the unnamed revelation continues, Ella's machine starts to display strongly formed images, which resolve into the quadrupled image of the dead wife of Zoltan Abbassid, who it appears is in that very hive being opened. This might be the very result that Abbassid was looking for. Unfortunately, it soon appears that whatever this experiment has meant to accomplish, the result is now seriously out of control. An indefinite number of identical fragments all comprising Abbassid's lost wife swarm out the hive, with the apparent goal of taking an undefined vengeance against him. The attacking swarm, in the shape of a great number of bees, knows that Abbassid never wears protective clothing when working with bees. James Hive-Maker watches the entire ensuing disaster through cold eyes. It is not know where Ella is when her husband expires from a thousand stings, staring faceup at the implacable Hive-Maker.