Sequoia Coast Ocean of Stars

Elfie did not have much to argue against, because he was not particularly empathic yet and therefore could not imagine himself in the place of one person or the other, especially the dead people. You could not speak for them, you could only guess. And it might not be true and therefore a lie. 

"But they were selfish in doing so," he approached the matter from a different perspective. "Didn't they know, how many people they would hurt, when they chose to die or simply died," he asked her. "Dad is a mess and now grandma Finley is a mess too and Bronco does not know it yet, but his mom is going to be a mess as well," he told.