"Oh, man," she laughs. "You ever seen--I'm gonna guess 'no,' here--they got this show where people who claim to be historians or archaeologists or whatever see basically everything as proof that aliens have been guiding human civilization since the beginning? Aliens built the pyramids, aliens caused the plague, aliens caused the flood, and the gods are clearly aliens. Forge gods in particular, because they bring technology."

Now she really wishes she had a computer, and could send it home with Teja. Imagine that crazy-hair guy on TV frothing over that...