ancestor had it, but neither of them were into genealogy, so we don’t know where I got it from.”

She nodded. “Interesting. There’s this whole world I didn’t know about.”

“Anyway, back to your original question. As a child, I manifested my powers fairly young, in grade school. Neither my parents nor my school knew what to do with me.”

“Manifested how?” She sounded honestly interested, so Jim grinned and answered. “I knew things I shouldn’t, like, unfortunately, who was sleeping with whom.”

“Oops.”

“You said it. Plus spirits tended to manifest near me, which caused all sorts of odd things to happen. Furniture moved. Knick-knacks were routinely knocked off shelves. That sort of thing. Fortunately, there was...

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