I'm sorry to be asking so much, but I do sense the importance here to be more understood and I want to be sensitive to it. I am thinking he would want to/need to/find it difficult *not to* use this in The Work if he has this connection to things that others consider inanimate. Can I use that a bit in a case, or does it seem to be supernatural to you if I did? Not trying to make it like a superpower or anything, but it might lead him to examine things from a different perspective and John would be fascinated. I'm not sure on this, because I don't want to cheapen the connection, because it's not exactly a clear voice to him if he is not connected to the object thoroughly, but maybe a sense of something? Not talking Dr Doolittle here. And I'm not sure if I can pull it off... But I don't know if that is intriguing or offensive and if it is the later, I apologise. If not, maybe to address how he struggles to ignore this to be more objective in his investigations?