"Oooh. That's possible," Ray said, setting his books aside. "Psychokinetic talent tends to crop up in nuclear families more often than it does in similarly sized random groups of individuals. And there was a study done a few years ago of a family in Spain that didn't exactly have mental powers per se, but that seemed to induce the development of abilities in others- there was some kind of genetic component to the Ardais family that we were never entirely able to isolate, but that got called 'catalyst telepathy'. Tell me about your father?"