Belief isn’t the issue, at least not in the way Scottie means. She believes what he says, of course. What she finds hard to believe is that her head-in-the-clouds shaman brother has come down so close to earth that he actually wants to get involved with her problems. He’s always seemed so completely detached from the corporate life that she used to wonder if he knew even corps existed. She can’t help wondering now if he really understands what she’s told him, the very pressing but starkly mundane problems afflicting her little slice of the corporate domain.