The three days since Klondor left seemed like three years to Pettic. He was particularly anxious because of what Blundo told him about the time passing differently in the other worlds. He did not know if minutes or years had passed in his world while he was in the world of Terra. This made him all the more anxious to get back.
He would be sorry to leave the friends he had made here, but he did miss his home world. This was a much more primitive place with the huts being built of mud and thatch, not stone. Everything they had was either grown by themselves, made from the materials they found or from the animals they hunted. True, they wasted very little, but Pettic did miss some of the comforts of home.
By the evening of the third day, anyone looking for him would find Pettic standing at
