It was as cold inside the ruined house as it was outside, but at least there was one room with a roof to keep the rain off. There was only so much you could expect from a coat, and Cosmo was way past ready for shelter.

Long, healthy lives, it turned out, made people either too conservative of their lives and health to take any risks or, on the other end of the spectrum, suicidally reckless.

It was like one of those View-Masters he had had when he was a boy, except this used cardboard with pictures pasted or printed on it instead of slides, and this needed the light coming over your shoulder instead of in front of you.