There were plenty of young people, some way too young, but most of the people on the stairs were old. Everyone was smiling. The kids didn't seem to understand the gravity of what was happening, and many ran up the stairs giggling and hopping around. The elderly definitely understood, and they giggled and hopped around, too, many standing up straighter than necessary, just because they could, for the first time in a long time; they couldn't help but tell David that as they walked past.

David looked up again, to the sky. Or were they above the sky, looking up into space? That didn't make any sense. Heaven or whatever...