Kit's gaze was sympathetic. "I'm sorry," she said. "It must be awful, seeing your home ruined like that. Thundara was wrecked by the lizards, but not to the point that it was a wasteland."

"Though if the whole place is a wasteland, then it's not Third Earth," she said. "Parts of it are, like the desert around the Sand Sea, but most of it that I've seen is pretty nice."