"Yes. Okay. Yes." Paul paced himself, making a circuit of the shop, stopping to adjust a clockwork that seemed too near a shelf's edge.

"Sorry, I'm still stupidly trying to filter my words to things that make logical sense and I don't know why as that is obviously pointless. Alright, in one ridiculous word: vampires.

"Haven't exactly seen any horror-flick blood-sucking going on but I did see, on a broadcast, one of the teen drama club breaking a tree with a kick. I don't mean... a sapling. I mean a tree. Also moving mostly too fast for my eyes to follow."