# Digest whorl.v001.n030 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Jan 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *30 Jan 1997, 11:35* >> IIRC, Patera Pike doesn't fly; he dissolves. Surely we can find some >> other >> small dark character who flies out windows? > Well, if you mean Oreb, he denied it, and I trust him. I trust Oreb too. And we know Queztal can fly: (a) tree scene (b) very last paragraph of Exodus. As for dissolution, that seems to me to be an illusion not unlike that of stage magicians who "disappear." Silk is at the bottom of a flight of stairs, the light is dim, Queztal is in black with a hood he can fling up over his white face, the only spot of color other than the calotte. And the spinning calotte focuses Silk's attention--a la stage magic--while Q whizzes off---flies. Since Q actually demonstrates this act (minus calotte) to Horn in the tunnel later, it doesn't seem so mysterious. Alice Turner Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---