He sighed. "Okay. Water crystals," he said to himself as if he was trying to find an easier way to make it clear. "At the end of the talk, Mr. Harder said something about a device that could measure the resonance of a substance. The Magnetic Resonance Analyzer. Do you remember that?"

I nodded.

"Well, we could say that I'm more or less the human version of that device. I can feel someone's thought by the resonance of its words in their body, their energy. Each word has a ...