"It's because of the grays, isn't it," he says, when he knows no one is going to overhear them. "She can see them, in full color, and no one's ever done that before. So Lethe just... what, bypassed the usual steps, and picked her?"

He thinks he gets it, but it still seems a little unfair — to Alex, mostly, though if Daniel, as a Virgil, was supposed to pick someone, then it also makes it a little unfair to him, as well, doesn't it?

"Also, what's with the Dante's Inferno shit? Is Lethe trying to say that the world is Hell and we're just trying to get through it?"