"Are there ghosts here?" he asked with as innocent a face as he could muster. It wasn't the real question he wanted to ask, but he hadn't decided yet which serious one he wanted to ask first. In the end, the foremost thought on his mind had won out. He wasn't even sure where he was going with it, but he didn't exactly have a good track record with questioning.

"A friend of mine is interested in that kind of thing," he confided, lowering his voice, leaning forward slightly. "I thought I'd tell her about it."