"Xochitalco was a very religious man," Hector said. He kept one eye on the traffic, cutting deftly back and forth across the four lanes that were flowing at breakneck speed along the autoroute, and the other on the rearview mirror as he engaged us in impassioned conversation. "The sportscasts say that he entered a telpochcalli when he was just six years old, with dreams of becoming a warrior priest. Then he discovered ollamaliztli and dedicated himself to sport, instead. But he still remained faithful to Tezcatlipoca. He kept the novice warrior’s lock of hair at the nape of his neck until his team won the nationals in 2051—he considered that the equivalent of taking a prisoner in battle. And he—"