He decided it was best just to leave things as
they were.
7 One day, Gray Boar and Mountain Glory came in to visit him. "You're
getting fat, sister," he remarked, "or are you expecting again?"
8 "You know very well I'm pregnant!" laughed his sister. "And when are
you going to take a proper mate?"
9 "Why should I?" laughed Thundering Boar, "I'm busy enough making all
these Sacred Children!"
10 "You're impossible!" sighed Mountain Glory.
11 "At least," continued her brother, "I don't go up in the hills, take
my clothes off, and run around all day!"
12 "All right, you two!" put in Gray Boar, "Stop playing around. We're
here on serious business!"
13 Thundering Boar sat back. "All right," he agreed, "what have you
been up to?"
14 "Have you read the work of Shining Toad?" Gray Boar asked him.
15 "Not much of his later stuff," his brother answered, "I'm still
trying to figure out that EM square business! Why? Has that four-toed
worshiper of The Goat God come up with something new?"
16 "He believes," continued Gray Boar, "that we can split the atom in a
controlled reaction chamber. That if we are successful, we might be
able to make a bomb that would be like bringing a piece of the sun down
from the sky, and for a moment, sitting it on the ground. It would be
equal to tons of our best explosive. With bombs like this, we could
shatter the cities of The Oneness, reduce them to smoldering ashes."
17 Thundering Boar whistled. "I suppose," he sighed, "it will take a
great deal of money to do the research?"
18 His brother nodded.
19 "Where do you intend to work?"