"Based on my conversations with the good professor, I imagine it has to do with our shared interest in unusual phenomena. I have some experience with the subject, you could say." He holds back on telling them about Emberhead for now, not sure they'd believe him. "Suffice it to say I am far less skeptical of some things than I was just a few months ago.

"Now, I'm no detective, but if you believe I could help in some way I don't see the harm in going to talk to this friend of yours."