"Who you trying to fool? Don't you think I know what way we came?"
"You fathead," snorted Bailey, gripping his ugly looking steel tube more tightly. "I might've known you'd get us lost! You and your 'Chameleon Tiger!' Damn both of you!"
"Oh, shut up. We aren't going to get back by shouting. Let's start walking your way and see what happens."
Time passed.
"Well," admitted the chagrined Ed Bailey, six hours later, "maybe you're right."
"We're good and lost now," replied Arch. "Probably can't even find the ship in the day, now. She's down in one of those sand valleys and we've passed millions of 'em."
"I wouldn't care if you hadn't parked that monster inside. Maybe he's eating our boat. I saw some metal eating things in the catalogue."
"Said he's carnivorous, Ed."
"Also said he could change to a cube. Oh, damn the whole stinking mess. You and your little friends."
"Wait till morning. Maybe we'll find our way."