--- W A X W E B --- { 27:22 / 1:25:00 } --- { Telephones : Ella } ---

The receiver changed the sound to moving pictures of the dead, which could float free and alive in the air.

	Coughing laughter echoes weakly through the room. look close, in through the glass of this bulb... the filament, a secret tungsten alloy, has twisted in a rictus grin, and is vibrating with spirit laughter. A little joke set up by ghosts who like you, but think it would be better for you if you got a little scare once in a while. Not to worry.

27:22

Ella and Jacob's Experiments:

The pair settles on Jacob's farm, where Ella begins her inventing work in earnest. Inspired by her brother's researches, Ella's interests now focus on the dead, who she hopes to bring into our world through a visual telephone. She begins to make working models of potential mechanisms. Meanwhile, hjer new husband Zoltan Abbassid conducts his own secretive experiments on the Mesopotamia bees he has sold to Hive-Maker.