"I don't think I have any such power. I've never heard of the Swift Death possessing anyone. And I don't have any sort of feeling that I could touch a soul. And if I could, I should know where everyone's soul is supposed to go, and I don't feel anything like that.

It would probably not be prudent to mention the tentative causal relationship between the Swift Death and spontaneous combustion. It had never been proven. And besides, people just explode sometimes.

She closed her eyes and concentrated, but didn't feel anything.

"Maybe this is just Stacy's idea of a joke, then."