What Jake's parents didn't know, what they could never understand--what they'd forgotten as they grew older and matured into adulthood--was that the world was a wondrous and mysterious place, and that it was always a matter of perception, that things bubbled and boiled beneath the surface of what could be seen, and felt, and heard; that sometimes these things reached out--like plunging your hand blindly into a murky pool in an attempt to recover a dropped key to the next door before you--and touched you in ways you could never understand.
