Why is it only here, then, that such things are suppressed? We call it being "dead" when someone leaves here and goes there, but those were words given to us, weren't they? We didn't come up with them ourselves. And it's nonsensical to think that one might be dead only to become more dead.

[He hums.]

If our powers were a threat to whatever is keeping us in this position, we'd lack them on every level. It can't be a question of security; why should one plane be any more or less vulnerable than another? So why keep them from us here and only here?