For all his experience in dealing with the aetherial realm and those who might inhabit it, even Emet-Selch cannot say with any certainty whether or not a spirit should happen to be capable of catching a cold. Though certainly at least some of the physical effects happen to be similar in Elidibus' case, for all that it is no real illness at fault. But there is an answer all the same, and that will do.

(Nor will he fault Elidibus for having asked. He is not suffering the same affliction as Elidibus and he knows very well that it is better to have the capacity to react to danger should it become necessary to than to not.)

The question of Bryn, on the other hand, prompts a moment of consideration from Emet-Selch.

"I should rather have made the attempt and failed than not. Though I cannot say that any further attempts to make direct contact would be advisable. Not least of all for the effect it might have on your aether."