Indan Ko scowled and thought for a moment. This huge Terran that crowded his palace like a giant in a doll’s house was not making sense.
“I do not understand.”
“Terra is known as the Planet of Terror,” said Billy, “because of the evolutionary system caused by the hard radiation in that district. You have seen the viciousness of our fungus, our micro-organisms, of our life itself. Could the Loard-vogh stand up against a bombardment, planet by planet, of fungus-spores so tenacious that they grow on synthetic resins? Stellor Downing held a Sscantovian guinea pig in one hand for a moment and it died a most horrible death within minutes because of fungi that were innocuous to him. In my ship there is a slab of rare cheese. Delicious stuff, and what Terrans call ‘quite high’ because it is grow
