Item: MoonBase 2, bio-memo # 442/section 3.5 Captain Jack Tracker

The dead magician was Ivor Kant. Jerry recognized him from a book he’d recently read on the topic of the Enoch-Mesra tablets and the controversy surrounding their disappearance. Something Kant had said about errors in the transfiguration formula tipped Jerry off.

When Jerry told me this, I became quite concerned. It was bad enough having a dead magician hanging about, but Ivor Kant! It was said that he’d died while trafficking in the souls of children with lower caste demons from a vibrational plane described, by my sources at least, only as other. In some circles, the mortal crime of bringing harm to children was gravely compounded by the fact that Kant had perpetrated the crime with the aid of and, worse yet, for the profit of non-vibrational entities.

Fortunately for Kant, I don’t move in those circles. Fortunate for me, also, to have Kant’s formidable skill and experience at my disposal later, when the situation on Earth deteriorated and we found ourselves at the mercy of cruel fate and even crueler Venusian Brain Bats.

Kant’s efforts during the Brain Bat and other crises, it must be noted, heartened my long cherished belief that even the vilest and most wicked of men are capable of making amends and changing for the better, even after death!

Transcribed by Richard Cody, 2005