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Russell Page squinted thoughtful eyes at the thing he had created -- a transparent cloud, a visible, sharply outlined cloud of _something_. It was visible as a piece of glass is visible, as a globe of water is visible. There it lay, within his apparatus, a thing that shouldn't be.
"I believe we have something there, Harry," he said slowly.