QUOTE : I don’t get it,” she said. “I mean, why teenagers? Why pick the most immature people on earth to handle such a huge responsibility?”<br /><br />Driggs looked up at the stars, then back at Lex. “You know Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?”<br /><br />Lex stared.<br /><br />“The world of pure imagination?” he added.<br /><br />“I’m familiar with the world of pure imagination,” Lex said dryly. “I’m just skeptical as to how manufacturing candy is in any way similar to reaping mortal souls.”<br /><br />“You know how at the end, Willy Wonka gives Charlie the factory?” Driggs went on. “Do you remember the reason he chose a child?”<br /><br />“Yeah, he said adults would want to do everything their own way, whereas a child—”<br /><br />“Would learn all the secrets,” said Driggs, “and keep them secret.” He flicked a pebble off the roof. “I mean, now that you’ve seen what really goes on here, have you thought for even a second of ratting us out?”<br /><br />“No, but—” The wordless anxiety that had been pumping through her veins ever since Uncle Mort touched that old woman came spilling out all at once. “I just find it disturbing that people—we ordinary, mortal, dumbass people—are in charge of all this. And we’ve covered it up for, what, millennia? You really expect me to believe that?”<br /><br />“Just because it’s the biggest secret in the history of the world doesn’t make it any less true.”<br /><br />Even Lex couldn’t think of a snarky answer to this.<br /><br />“Did I just blow your mind?” Driggs asked. “I think I just blew your mind.” With that, he pulled out a handful of at least a dozen Oreos from his pocket and shoved three into his mouth