Felix actually felt a brief twinge of guilt that he'd caused some of Spencer's enthusiasm to dim. It felt like a terrible crime he'd just committed. Perhaps if he let the adorable doctor discuss his work... ? Or perhaps not, he did say 'used to.'

"The purpose of those books isn't to delineate between fantasy and reality, necessarily. They are to provide you with possibility enough for you to define your own reality," Felix postulated. "Surely investigative work requires imagination."