You two have nothing better to do all day than stir up trouble. Fine, you're haunting people in broad daylight—I've at least seen that before. But you're haunting people while you're still alive? Isn't that a little too eager? Then again, you seemed to have pulled this stunt once before.
Melinda had no intention of exposing Klayya, though, because she truly had no idea how to explain her ability to see souls. She couldn't exactly say that during some mission, she had suffered a severe blow to the head and awakened Mystic Eyes capable of seeing souls and the deaths of all things, could she?
Besides, a major problem in physics was deeply troubling her right now: did souls have mass, and were they affected by inertia? If your soul left your body on an airplane, would inertia fling it right out of the plane?
Or perhaps your soul only appeared to be staying in place, while in reality it was continuously flying at the same constant velocity as the plane?
And souls seemed able to pass through solid objects without obstruction, so if they could pass through walls, why didn't they leak right out of the airplane? Or had souls broken free of gravity's influence?
...What am I even thinking? Trying to explain soul-related issues with modern physics—wasn't that fundamentally off track?
In any case, with Melinda keeping silent, the agents began discussing their next move beneath Klayya's ghostly gaze. No one noticed her presence, at least not on the surface.
When Sitwell took off his glasses to wipe them, his eyes casually glanced in Klayya's direction. He seemed to sense something and immediately looked away. A bead of cold sweat unconsciously rolled down his bald head, but he used the motion of putting his glasses back on to