Chapter FourteenFluffster jumps from my lap onto the table and steals a piece of almond from my bowl as I mull over that impossible idea.
In my philosophy class, we learned the technique of reductio ad absurdum—to prove something false, you first assume it’s true, then use logic to carry that assumption to some ridiculous conclusion.
So what if I assume I can “dream” the future?
For one thing, it would create a small paradox right off the bat. When I see the future in my dream, I immediately gain the power to change it, so I’m not really seeing the future, just a possibility that can be thwarted. In fact, my very first “prophetic dream” was about getting strangled (they do like to do that to me) by that first cadaver on the stage. But when I came to my senses, I ran away from him—so I d
