I found it cold and forbidding.
"To think that it was undiscovered for all of these years!"
Too bad I did find it.
"You found it, and you conquered it. That makes it almost your own planet, Guy."
I'll trade it for a chance to seek it again.
They prattled on, not noticing his silence. They wouldn't have heard him if he had spoken, for they poured the questions at him without waiting for an answer.
"Was it exciting to go all the way out there?"
It was deadly. They hit us with all they had.
"Tell us about the battle. We want to hear the final words on the finish of the fight. Tell us how you captured the weapon that destroyed all Mephisto. Was that thrilling?"
Thrilling? Maynard saw a white face with closed eyes, neatly placed in endless rows of other faces. He heard the voice of the chaplain saying again: "—vast though the universe be, and though you travel it endlessly, there you will find His work—"