…ah, makes sense. [folding his arms over carefully] I haven't heard of something else like that before…

Someone must really have disliked the surface of your world. [He says it casually, but he's not smiling, fingers tapping against his arm.] And no one can get any of it to make an antidote, either? That's… [He shakes his head, and straightens up a little.] Has it always been like that?