So either a) you live in a world full of magic (the mysterious, unpredictable kind) or b) you have a small child at home But there is a challenge in building

So either a) you live in a world full of magic (the mysterious, unpredictable kind) or b) you have a small child at home But there is a challenge in building fiction that even things that can reasonably happen will often be rejected by the reader if they are strange and unexplained. The saying "truth is stranger than fiction" actually tells you more about fiction than about truth.