"We have been treating the trees on a ten mile radius with an anti-
flammatory solution for several years as well, and it is quite
impossible to set them on fire."
"Which explains why you dared to have a fire pit in the trunk of a tree
outpost."
"Yes," he laughed, "We aren't so foolhardy as we may seem. Appearances
can be deceiving."
"The exodus of the Zards from Nunami is almost guaranteed by the
mortal's natural curiosity and delight in the calamities of others," I
said, "But how do you plan on leveling the town before the remnant raise
the alarm and the mass of the people return?"
"Atomic anionizers," he returned.
"Which are what? They sound like they are beyond my level of
understanding."
"Not at all," Wagner told me, "Do not be fooled by the technically
complex sounding name. An atom is the smallest form into which matter
can be broken down into while still retaining its identity, and an anion
is a positively charged ion, or in other words, an instance of an atom
in which there are more electrons than protons, resulting in a charge of
negative electricity. An atomic anionizer is just what its name would
imply: a device that morphs normal atoms into atoms with an extreme
negative charge by emitting massive amounts, to the tune of many
millions of moles, of solitary electrons into the air through a bombing
device.
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