At Invisibles Questioning Level 6 in the Invisibles program, a solution is always easier to find if we bring in some new characters to the existing characters. They help to solve the problem by bringing new possibilities to solving it. Doing that is really a smart move. This point should have been put into the Invisibles book.
In Cleveland in one story at QL 6 we had a big angel trying to coax a scared umbrella out into the sun on a beach in Toremolinos, Spain but without success. All we had to do in that case (a teacher named Christy in Cleveland thought of this and it was very effective) was to have three silly little dogs – Pokey, Smokey and Dokey – show up along with a handsome lifeguard and, as a group, the five characters helped to bring the umbrella out into the sun and removed any tension in the story via increased humor generated by their mere presence.
In this way, the story was solved with greater ease than if only two characters had been present at the end of the story to solve it. With the added array of characters, the students forgot about the problem and didn’t care if the solution was lame because they were so focused on watching their classmates and processing sound into meaning. Those extra characters added in at the end help!