Re: Nesryn + Brian
Shimmer operated on a different frequency than humans. It seemed to James that things hit her senses in unusual ways. What he might process as static electricity making his hair stand up, or nails on a blackboard without the auditory component, she'd describe as chalky. When James put his hands on that machine and focused, he picked up an abnormal vibration, but it could just as easily be that a gaming gimmick was incidentally channeling the pre-existing strangeness in Lucky's, rather than an intentional experiment by a witch.
He came back to the conversation.
"Good is relative." James leaned his forearms on the bar. "I know what we're sitting on. It's not just the merchandise. It's twenty-three years of ritual. You have to be careful upstairs or it's like shaking up a can of Coke and popping the tab."