Mysterious Disappearances

An explosion of feathers and blood, contained in a small glass box, marked the end of yet another experiment with Programmable Magic.

"Chickens... no good..." Sam sighed.

They were in Kir's kitchen/dining room, and the curtains were shut to keep the riots of light down as the experiments continued.

"We've gone through rabbits first, then pigs, and now chickens... I think we've confirmed that animals without mana can't handle even a simple program." At least this time he had the foresight to build a container... the smell of pork and rabbit was still somewhat present.

The problem wasn't applying the magic, a piece of paper and some mana would burn the spell into whatever was underneath with surprising accuracy, it was powering it. A being with no capacity for mana would explode with the amount of draw even a single-set program had, building up until their bodies were rent apart by the unfamiliar energy.