“Whether there’s more to the world than meets the eye? Of course there is, one way or another. People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with extraordinary grace and unfathomable cruelty. We’re so terribly intelligent, and dreadfully easy to fool. I’m ready to believe you mesmerised me on Camlet Moat; I’ve seen odder things done. I don’t need to believe in mystical hexagrams to explain a tree bursting into flame—”
