It’s lucky that they weren’t off-put by your presence, and that you became friends besides. It’s a rarity.

[ There’s a part of Matthias that would really like to meet them, just out of curiosity, but he’s not sure how they’d take to a wizard. He decides not to bring it up for now. ]

Ah, well. It’s not often I am given the opportunity to speak about myself. To start of the beginning, I’ve always been able to see the spirits of the dead. Some of them have been my closest friends, in fact, though that didn’t strike me as odd until I was older.

Needless to say, my parents found it rather disconcerting.