Good servants are so hard to find, Chesna said, oozing arrogance.

They'd been running hard and the only thing he could hear was his own heart pounding and his breath teakettling in and out of his lungs.

Another important problem in cosmology is: Why is the nightsky dark? It has, in fact, been said that we could use this observation to show that the universe is expanding. We now realize that this isn’t true. The well-known early astronomer Johannes Kepler was the first to see that there was a difficulty with the dark nightsky. To him, the problem centered around whether or not the universe was infinite. If it was infinite, Kepler was sure the nightsky should be bright.

Shaped as if they had been unskilfully cut off the chump-end of something.