The trick with the refilling glass was kind of amazing - or at least to Dan it was and he grinned, a flash of sharp teeth. "Do you always use symbols?" he asked, since some magic required the use of tools. A wand, for example. A spellbook. He just wanted to learn more - without the use of prying. That was just rude.
"And do you - what I mean is..." He artfully arranged some rice on his plate with his fork, trying to think of how to word it. "Have you ever encountered someone who has ghosts...locked away in their head?"
Not that Dan was...talking about himself. (Of course he was - they both knew it too, surely). Maybe it was even the source of that call to attention, that skittering of electricity that crawled beneath Dan's skin, whenever he put his hand on John's - it wasn't bad. Not at all. But he definitely didn't understand it.