Gansey definitely has stories. Steve gets an elevator pitch overview of Glendower's history and a similarly short primer on ley lines. This leads into Gansey meandering over Europe from the UK to Rome searching out ley line phenomena and finding other things along the way (little things, like a few pottery shards in a well-excavated dig in Rome or a small circle of standing stones in a fallow, muddy field in Powys) and his eventually proven theory about Glendower's body being moved from Wales to Virginia.

He's a good storyteller, and between the stories is the uniting thread of a kid who aches for some sort of greater significance beyond the smallness of himself. The hints of connection that led him from Wales to Virginia are barely whisps, logical leaps on insubstantial ground that miraculously paid off. Gansey seems legitimately blessed with the ability to find things, but believes wholeheartedly that the price of this talent is the obligation to always be looking.