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There was an old Earth term for the phenomenon, one that Calliope couldn’t remember the name of, but she still held onto the concept and mulled it over now and again.
It went like this: There were prisoners within a cave that have lived there all of their lives, chained down and permanently faced away from the cave’s opening. The exit was steep and far away from them all, and it was far enough that not many people believed one existed at all. The fire behind them illuminated objects that they couldn’t see, and they could only identify figures that passed by from the shadows that were cast onto the wall. They had no idea whether or not these shadows were from real people or puppets, but the shadows were the only reality they knew.
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Calliope uses Plato as a means of introspection regarding her connection to other people. -
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