"The unknowably magical kind, mostly," he says. "I found him in my attic years ago. He's how I became a mage." He's glad that, in this day and age, you could usually just say you were magic and have people believe you - or at least that it was some kind of regular superhuman stuff. Perhaps aliens were less up on this kind of thing, though.

"...Unfortunately, I'm the only one that can actually hear him talk. It's made me look like a lunatic more than once, let me tell you..."

Maybe this is one of those times, who knows.