"Oh, in my world, there were no gods," Teja says. "But there are worlds where they are real."

Pause.

"Would you ever have heard of Plato's Parable of the Cave?" he then asks. Just because this man would train with a ball does not mean he would be uneducated. Teja had been educated, for a man of his time and people, and he was training at arms every day, still.-