"Okay." Celandine was slightly relieved by this and she wrote down her question (was it going to be a nice day tomorrow?) and finished her drawing quickly.

She raised her hand to answer. "Professor, a cold reading is when you use interpretations of the subject's body language and visual clues to express details in order to convince the subject that you know more than you do when doing a reading, by like, using the Forer effect." She eyed the burning logs. "Or you know, in this case, if we let the fire go out, it could be a literal, cold reading."

You could never tell with Professor Kapoor.