<span style="text-decoration: underline"><div style="text-align: center;">Thomas Wong Lee - The Psychic</div></span><br/><br/>Los Angeles, California<br/>The Abandoned Warehouse<br/><br/>While he could have taken offense to her teasing, and he usually took offense to those who questioned his abilities earnestly, Tommy was soon serious as well. He was going to have to be. This wasn't exactly a funny situation. Humorists often made fun of death in these cases. It was sometimes called gallows humor for that matter. The fleeting jokes told by those ready to die.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, he didn't find this entirely funny at the moment. Something wasn't at all right, just like she had thought.<br/><br/>Things were soon getting worse considering the issue of coffee was brought up though. No matter how American he might have been, he still did prefer plain water and had no idea how people drank that mud. It was toxic and dangerous even. He understood that there was even a movement to ban it in a couple of states.<br/><br/>Still, even if Evelyn kind of doubted his help, he was going to do everything that he could have to be of assistance. He didn't really see any other option after all. He knew that he was going to have to read what spirits he was sensitive to if he wanted to find anything out.<br/><br/>Granted his powers weren't at all like what he had depicted them as being like on his radio show. That was a theatrical performance as much as it was a real reading. He might have even been undermining his own believability by the fact that he put on airs like that. Still, he was sensitive and he intended to illustrate that shortly.<br/><br/>Just like Evelyn thought, though, Alexandra was doing them all a service from his point of view by not acting like she knew everything when she hadn't. Eventually, though, his thoughts were broken by the mention of poison. That was an excellent way to get this conversation back to the task at hand posthaste.<br/><br/>"Well, are we certain of the cause of death at all? Is it something cardiovascular at least?" He figured that would have helped in a number of ways, on top of the fact that it would probably make the investigation easier on him as well. If he knew something about what was going on, then he could have possibly been more informed on where to go and look so to speak.<br/><br/>"We don't have any water to offer, now do we toots?" Tommy smirked a bit and continued to think to himself. The moment that he heard anything in the spiritual realm he would have announced it to everyone else. Then again, he wasn't at all sure that other people would have at all liked to hear him make that announcement one bit.<br/><br/>Ironically, James soon got him some water, which he was more than pleased by. He was a bit gruff at times and probably pretty haughty, but at least he was polite when something was given to him.<br/><br/>"...James, were you thinking about bringing me something a little stronger than water?" It could have been a joke, but maybe just maybe Tommy had actually read the other's mind. "Even if I don't want any coffee I figure we could all go for a good stiff drink at this point." Coincidence? More than likely, but it just seemed uncanny. It really looked like he had figured out that James was casually thinking of some sort of test. Then again, he might not have known and it could have been an unusual joke. This kind of thing was the sort that made people continue to guess when they were dealing with Tommy really.<br/><br/>That was when he finally received a vote of confidence from Alexandra, which he naturally considered to be very high praise indeed. Looking up slowly, he smiled and tipped the hat in his hand that he hadn't been wearing since he entered. "You know, actually hearing that from you makes it all the more real if that makes any sense at all."