After giving him a second to get his bearings, I pointed to the sign tacked on the outside of my bathroom door. “Memorize it,” I ordered, then slammed the door shut again. “‘No dead people beyond this door,’” he read aloud from beyond the door. “ ‘And, yes, if you suddenly have the ability to walk through walls, you’re dead. You’re not lying somewhere in a drainage ditch waiting to wake up. Get over it, and stay the hell out of my bathroom.’” He stuck his head through the door again. “That’s a bit harsh, don’t you think?” My sign may have seemed a tad brutal to the untrained eye, but it
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