Huh. [ what ] Okay. I don't think I really understand it but - if we're both from the US, but you don't have the gods, and it's a really different year... what does that mean?

[ He frowns, brows furrowing as he thinks it over, fidgeting with the end of his tie. ]

Maybe it's like... in the pulp novels, when sometimes people travel to different worlds, where something in the past happened another way and it changes everything? Maybe at some point in your world the gods just left, somehow. [ That's a more reassuring if still troubling thought to Orpheus than the idea that they never existed at all. ] But I've never heard of that really happening. It's just a type of story people like to tell.