[Well, the girl looking back at him like he's a complete idiot is a surprise. Maybe she doesn't know. Maybe she didn't get the rundown. Or maybe... maybe he's wrong, and no one else came here via the Underworld.]
Sometimes they do. They talk to each other. [It's gentle, but not patronizing; he's got enough dad instincts to know how to talk to an already-frowning tween, and it isn't by making them feel stupid.] And they can talk to alive people, with a little help.
[Like a psychic powers, or a Ouija board, or... whatever the fuck is going on right now.]
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Sometimes they do. They talk to each other. [It's gentle, but not patronizing; he's got enough dad instincts to know how to talk to an already-frowning tween, and it isn't by making them feel stupid.] And they can talk to alive people, with a little help.
[Like a psychic powers, or a Ouija board, or... whatever the fuck is going on right now.]