The Exo tilts his head. "Truly? How strange that there should be so much hollow space beneath these roads. Not the work of some burrowing creature?" Wasn't there some sort of beast that left spots that were practically quicksand? But then that still left earth in the places it passed...

"I think that has been a fact established early on." There isn't much sense to be found in many of the things here, much less the circumstances.