"I can hear inanimate objects talking about themselves."

She blinks. "About themselves? That's cool what sorts of things do they say?"

"Just how they're shaped or what color they are, stuff like that."

"And that's a magic thing rather than just your brain processing things you see differently?"

"I can read books without opening them."

"Oooh, that sounds useful."

"It's not that great. People think it's a mental illness."

"...what? Why?"

"Because I'm hearing things other people can't."

"But. Er. Is it impairing you in any way?"

"No."

"...so I don't get it. It's useful, it's magic, it doesn't hurt you...?"

"They don't think it's real."

"Wait, what? Didn't you just say you can read books without opening them?"

"Yes."

"I don't get it."

"I haven't been invited to prove it and if I tried they'd think I memorized the book."

"Can you do it with your eyes closed?"

"Yes."

"Could you ask a book what's written on the page someone's currently reading?"

"I could ask it about what page it was open to but it wouldn't know what someone was reading."

"—for that matter can you actually ask it stuff? I was being metaphorical—anyway I'll explore that later, but it could tell you what was written on the page it was open to?"

"I can ask them stuff. Otherwise they just go through all the facts about them in a loop. So yeah."

"Okay so like that should be enough to prove it's not fake in less than ten minutes, shouldn't it? Close your eyes, have someone pick any books they want and open them to random pages, start reciting what they say."

"Nobody wants me to do that." Shrug.