Everywhere he looked, there was something written above everyone.

Each person had a different sentence written above them, a handful of words which revealed something about them; their deepest secret. At first, Dan didn't know that this wasn't normal, but when he began to ask people about their most personal, buried secrets, he soon learnt he was different.

Dan doesn't mention this now, the secrets people would rather die than tell yet he knows by simply glancing at them. It's almost cruel to him, in a way, it's painful to glance everywhere and see so many people hurting, see the bad things people will never tell, or see something he wishes he could help to change.

Secrets are usually the dirtiest, scariest things people possess. They can make or break a person and usually define a lot about them. Secrets are what bind people or tear them apart. Secrets are meant to be secrets, something you tell only your closest of friends or something that simply dies with you.

No one is meant to know your secrets, especially without you knowing.

But everyone's secrets, every single living human in the world with a secret is completely unaware that it's not entirely a secret;

because Dan can know them all.