She was the drunk one, but Elliot felt so disoriented that he may as well have been — he blinked at her. "I'm the one who's haunted," Elliot said. His Sight hung over everything he did, over every relationship he had — and it had forced him to retreat to Wales, safely away from anyone to alarm.

"But — I'm not teasing," Elliot added, plaintive. He wasn't teasing — but why on earth did she think he was?