"If you're talking churches, sure. A few cities have like, Jesus monuments and sure, cities have stupid statues of some benefactor or whatever, but not like what we came from here." Not to that scale and not in the same context.

Call him a Hyur, Estinien. He'll think he's laughing. "Everything about this place is pretty much on the unusual scale. I'm not jiving with any of it. Where're the cars? Planes? Power lines? I have no cell phone. No laptop. I bet the service out here sucks, too."

He wasn't an idiot. He was getting the feeling more and more that none of those things existed here. But when in the middle of an existential crisis, Jensen preferred to joke. It kept him sane.