"Pleased to meet you." Higher Education eyed the hand carefully before shaking it, as if testing whether or not it was really there. Of course, that was the base question to his research, or at least one of several major problems - how, exactly, did the gods exist in a physical world? What biology or physics governed them, and what anatomical differences existed between actual human beings and constructs that accomodated to fit human form?
Then, a man stepped in and introducted himself, cutting Higher Education's train of thought neatly in the bud. The psychopomp gave Jacob a curt nod. "Hello. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintence."