- Queen Tika: Gene Autry! How do you like our world?
- Gene Autry: I think the dampness and dead air of your land is more suited for rats and moles.
- Queen Tika: What language is he speaking?
- Muranian Doctor (chapter 7): It is the language of the dead.
- Queen Tika: Then we can't understand him, or he us?
- Muranian Doctor (chapter 7): Surface people always return to life that way.
- Queen Tika: But you said that I might question him.
- Muranian Doctor (chapter 7): One may always question the dead, your majesty, but one need not always expect an answer.