It's mesmerizing, watching those powers at work, so open and so free. The realization that even if someone walked in they wouldn't care about the telekinesis being used out in the open is such a change from the way Ilya knows the world to work that he can barely believe his eyes.

"I believe you. It's just... I don't want to make waves. I never have. Trouble seems to follow me wherever I go, but I never mean for it to. All I want is to be happy but I haven't figured out what that means, either." As he mulls over Dolemeck's own beliefs, he adds, "I was raised Orthodox, or at least, my grandparents tried to get me to be. I tried to be. I just never felt the same connection to God that other people around me had... or any, really, when it came to the Christian God. But it might've been because so many people disliked the 'liberal' priest who let a half-Chukchi into the building to start with. I agree, though, about not being able to see hatred or cruelty in whatever higher powers are out there. It doesn't make much sense."