Divination and the afterlife, two of Elliot's main interest areas. He did not think he could have stayed away from the English Society of Mysticism & the Unknown event if he had wanted to, and he was far too interested in other people's perspectives to want to. Oh, this event was guaranteed to have its portion of people he preferred to avoid — wealthy crackpots, and people who were more attracted to death than they were to life — but it was so rare that multiple seers would be in one place.

Elliot finished an earnest conversation with one of the wealthy crackpots about tarot, and then turned to the redheaded woman nearby as the other left. "I'm sorry," he said, a classic Elliot introduction, "But I think I may know you.* What brings you here tonight?"