“I ask him anyway,” he said. “I say: ‘Pa, what should I do about this?’—in my head.” He added hastily: “I don’t see an apparition, or anything like that.” She nodded calmly, unsurprised. “And then what?” “Usually, the answer comes to me.” She said nothing. A bit nervously he said: “Does that sound peculiar?” “Not at all,” she said. “That’s how spirits work.”
