"I do," he replies easily. "That's my job back home. I study criminal behavior in order to help the police catch them more easily." That's the long and short of it at least. It also involves a lot of psychology and compiling statistics.

They come upon a copse of trees and when the green of it all hits Malcolm' he throws his arm up. "Ah! Those trees are way too loud." It sounds like a thousand insects are buzzing in his head. Is this what it's really like for synesthetes?