“You know why I thought you’d save me?” he tried to whisper to her, though he knew that his lips weren’t properly forming the words. “The voice. You were the first person I ever met that it didn’t tell me to kill. The only person.” “Of course I didn’t tell you to kill her,” God said. Zane felt his life seeping away. “You know the really funny thing, Zane?” God said. “The most amusing part of all this? You’re not insane. “You never were.”

