"You have no idea..." Albel led the way forward. He didn't laugh.

"The people of 4-D space have strange... gates, not unlike the portal we just used," Albel explained. "They use them to connect all parts of their world -- their towns and cities, their secure buildings... You can just disappear and arrive there, magically. I do not understand their technology, but I can assume their world must be massive..."

They'd only seen one town before arriving in Gemity, and it was incredibly developed from anything Albel had ever seen. If that was but a small residential area, he couldn't even imagine what a city would be like -- what a country could be.

"They created our world... as a diversion. As entertainment. That portal takes them to a... a technological game that for us is our reality."

It was still strange to talk about it like this.