"If yours is anything like mine, I'm fairly sure this entire town would burn to the ground," Joel says and he had thought Charlotte was out of earshot at this point, but he's suddenly hit with a particularly vivid mental image of her burning down the bookstore. He knows she never would, but he shoots her a dirty look all the same.

"I just pray you don't have a magical psychic connection with yours, because that gets old fast, too," he says, though he doesn't mean it at all. It's been useful in the past, for knowing exactly what Charlotte needs of him and when she needs it.