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The aliens wouldn't accept help, though their world was / about to explode. They were adolescents. Adolescence is / the time when you aren't smart enough to ask for help....
The planet Diamore, hung round and gaudy in the view-plates. As colorfully unchanging as it had been every day for the two weeks since the _Wallower_ had plopped out of inverspace near it.