Tell me--why did you not visit the Moon, or the Sun, in your recent wanderings ?" This question caused me some surprise.

It was certainly very strange that I had not thought of doing so.

Yet, on pondering the matter in my mind, I remembered that during my aerial journey suns and moons had been no more to me than flowers strewn on a meadow.

I now regretted that I had not sought to know something of those two fair luminaries which light and warm our earth.
Heliobas, after watching my face intently, resumed: "You cannot guess the reason of your omission?
I will tell you.

There is nothing to see in either Sun or Moon.