"I appreciate that," Solomon said ever-so-dryly, "but I thought that this particular experiment might be of interest to you." Leaving aside the fact that Solomon could have used the backup on the merits of backup alone, Bakura had more control of the khajbit than Solomon did. He had, after all, only possessed it for a handful of days.

But he wasn't inclined to mention that just yet. "I want to see if I can tie together an intersection of Death, Life, Dreaming and the khajbit," he said, "and see if I can summon things through it. Things such as the missing parts of a person's being."