Wasn't there something about dummies/mannequins being hurled off a lorry and people panicking because they thought they were being raised up to heaven? Something like that anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
