[You'd better start believing in ghost stories, etc. It really is kind of like a bad dream, and it's a damn shame he's too practical to try to convince himself of that.

But he gives her a somewhat skeptical look.]

I'm fairly sure there be quite a bit missing to the story, lass. It's like a book with the middle ripped out. Ye know the beginning, ye know the end. What happens in the interim is a mystery, unless ye find yourself another copy.