There was a short silence, at the end of which servadac announced that the volume of the comet was 47,880,000 cubic miles.
The country turned strange and dark near deweyville. There was the evidence: the code, the incomplete accounts.
Jarlaxle had hoped that gromph would be about, to witness the return, but triel was an even better witness.
He had been asked about their name, and he had said that there was an interesting story about it, though it turned out not to be.