Herodotus looked stunned.
“Well, not per se,” Polly continued. “It’s just another planet, after all. If it disappeared tomorrow it would cause some gravitational ripples in the solar system, but the rest of the universe wouldn’t even notice. I have to work on a bigger scale. Remember what I told you about fighting the enemy?”
“Uh, is this another test?”
Polly continued looking at him.
“The enemy is entropy, right?”
“You’re still at B-minus. You’ll have to work harder. Yes, the true enemy is entropy. The ChemForsCos and Hanrattys ain’t the enemy—they just took the easy path entropy offered them. So I just try, in my own humble way, to make that path a little harder.”
“So where are we going now? Going to make life harder for people who give in to entropy?”
“Actually, no. I think you’l
