"I'm not going to do either of those things. I'm not going to just sit around and hide." Much as that idea was growing more and more appealing, despite his obsessive need for answers. "I need to know what's happening. I need to find out what's going on. And... Can't you just take me and my sister back up to Heaven, with the other unmarked souls? Away from here?"

"No. You're different from them, I know that much. I don't even know if you're human, David."

David stood there, while the weight of Galon's words threatened to drag him back down to the ground.

"Can... Can you at least find...