"I don't know," he admits, scanning the spines for any other relevant titles. When he spots one, he pulls it. They can take a big stack over to a table and start digging, he figures. "But if it's all fake, there sure are a lot of books about it."

Not that that means anything - there are a lot of books about the Bible, too, right? It doesn't feel like a good enough answer. "And I think...there's more to the world than what we know, right? There was a time when we didn't know what stars were made of, or that the Earth went around the sun. What if psychic powers are just one more thing we don't yet understand?"