There might be others out there, others just as powerful. Maybe they had once existed, having lived their lives and dying as a normal. He didn't know. All he knew was Cary tried classifying everyone, to try and compartmentalize everything in his head. The most common level thrown around was Delta. Ptonomy was Alpha, Syd was Beta. It wasn't just power though, it was all tied to their genetics somehow. David couldn't follow it, but what he took from the Cary's classifications was the fact that it was flat-out ridiculous to ask anyone else to go up against the Shadow King directly.
If there were others out there though, there was no guarantee they would help. What if they were just as unstable as he was? What if they agreed with the other side? What if they just made things worse, bringing all manner of new and horrible ways to die?
Syd's words washed over him like water, none sinking in as his mind retreated into itself again. His hand was easy to move, offering no resistance to the fabric being placed in and closed around it with a touch he'd missed for so long, knowing each time was brief, each time requiring a guard in-between them. But the weight of the gesture was lost as he stared, the familiar, crippling emptiness making him little more than a breathing statue as he heard nothing, both inside and out.
Just outside the door, Cary and Kerry were speaking, the latter shifting restlessly from side to side while the previous was barely maintaining an air of calm -- a show put up entirely for Kerry's benefit. They were both fidgeting in their own ways, discussing the matter of there being two Davids here, what was happening with each, and what the game plan was as Kerry put it.
Their conversation dropped as soon as the door to David's room opening, Kerry immediately stating: "I can't get your boyfriend down here." A fact she was obviously annoyed about. "There's like, some invisible wall around him." A beat. "So, you know, he's safe, I guess." At that she shrugged, it was the only report she had, nothing else was different.