That was just weird. Cain wasn't sure why, but it was one of the few things he was having trouble just squaring away as one of those other-universe-things like so many other oddities. Perhaps because it was just close enough to home to be completely wrong that it was bumping up against the edges to what he knew was right rather than just being something he could dump elsewhere in his justification of the differences.

"Like someone's natural affinity for athletics versus intellectual pursuits," Cain said slowly, considering. "Still possible but not likely to have anything come of it. That just doesn't happen." In my world went unspoken.