"You're the only person here like you," Marcus says. In a way, he understands that. There's no one else quite like him in Darrow, no one who hears God, who can begin to understand what it's like when He's inside Marcus's head.

"You two should talk," he says. "And come talk to me about it, too. With all the volunteer hours I put in at the Home, I know a thing or two about the home schooling curriculum. I could help you both with it."

It might mean he would have to take fewer hours at the Home, at least until the end of the year, but he'll do it happily for the two of them.