if you could hear animals in this world ( and ghost spoke to me , she was a baby , she did n't have a lot of words and all of them were korwahk so i did n't know what she was saying half the time , but i still understood her mews and purrs and growls like human language ) , if horses could be so white they shone ice blue , if innocent women could go to bed in seattle and be transported to an alternate universe - then there could be magic .