When Peter dropped into a chair, however, he became much less whimsical. Cai wanted answers and Peter planned on taking this seriously. "I know a handful of others," he explained. "Most of them see things the way I do or the way Zoe does. I used to simply have dreams, but after a brain tumour, which was unrelated," he added quickly, "I started seeing things while I was awake, while I had seizures.

"I haven't met anyone, except you now, who has visions simply by touching someone, though I know of a few cases of psychometry, which is visions by touching objects. Has that ever happened to you?"