"A few think they're here for punishment. Other think they're dead, or they are dead. I doubt most of them have even been blips on the radar for any god," he says, figuring he never had been and only would be with conversations like this one. "But I think punishment tends to hold the reigning theory. I've been through worse punishments though."

This place was, for him, pretty therapeutic. "Unless this is more insidious."