"Not a planetary body within countless billions of miles."
M'hort paced. "We should not have this trouble," he said fretfully. "I
am most annoyed with Rex. Look at us of Worta. Do we not know we are
doomed, that the unhealthful conditions beneath Worta are producing a
sterility that will soon destroy us as if we had never been? Yet we are
gay and take what there is of life. Why must Rex make us all unhappy?
And I feel he is planning--something that can never be undone."