of course gallan and raddia had heard of the ghosts , who , apart from the feeres habit of worship , sounded more or less similar to the spirits , but to listen to a man from a world as obscure and fantastical as ienar lin speak of the three runes as actual , tangible stones which held the power to make and unmake the dizzying vastness of the universe left them all gaping at wixelor , their overtaxed minds bursting with questions .