That’s the worst sort, of course. The thing that you know can’t be true because it would defy the laws of physics — except that, irrefutably, you have right before you the proof that this thing is, in fact, truer than shit, and just as messy.
Poor Lauren. Sucks to be her — that’s all I have to say. And old Jake isn’t taking the arrival of the semi-invisible green guy in the hallway any to well, either. Jake’s pretty steady for a three-year-old, but he almost died recently and is still a bit twitchy about anything that smacks of gates, otherworlds, or magic.
Time for more on that, I think.