If you wish to ask for the services of this office, I will let you.” “What … are those services?” Ariel ventured. The VP looked at him flatly. “Flooding; alternatively, desertification. Burning; alternatively, glacial creep. Erosion, fast or slow. The resettlement of herds and swarms. And burial, of course—by rock, by ice, by vegetation. When the firm decides to do one of these things, it is done.” Her eyes glittered. “Do you require a flood or a fire?”
