"I always hated that saying," he responds. "Misery loves company." It's not nice, especially when the phantom senses linger: the static of the hair, or the little one-off laughs, the pitter-patter of a young girl running too fast. "Do you know anyone with powers like this? Powers of projection?"

And time manipulation...

Erik is thinking it's most likely that the person is a new arrival, unaware of what they're doing. That often happens when powers come out of nowhere, in his experience.