Jandro looked up with both longing and bitterness before he spoke. "You did not come from there?"
"No."
"But you can go there in your metal?"
"Yes."
"Will you take me?"
"That is not for me to say, but perhaps I can influence the others. Tell me why you want to go and why you call it Heaven World."
"Long ago," said Jandro, "before men lived on Trear, they lived with the gods on Heaven World, but for rebellion and disobedience they were thrown down and exiled. Trear was a barren moon without life or materials. After many dekara man succeeded in expanding the tiny seeds of life he had brought and grew the great forests. That gave us wood, and the deserts gave us glass. So we have built a world on the barren Trear, and have looked to the time when the gods shall lift us again to Heaven World.
"That is the story the fathers have told, but I do not believe it," Jandro finished. "I do not know what to believe, except that I want the heritage of our home world to be restored to us."
Dreyer related the story to his companions. "It sounds very much as if Jandro's ancestors were some refugee group that fled the planet before the destruction that consumed the atmosphere."
"So he wants to go with us," Underwood said. "I wonder if he could be of any use to us in unraveling the secrets of the planet."