"Maybe he thinks it's easy to be a nucleus.

Nucleuses are hard to be, I'll tell the world.

Anyway I can be a pioneer scout, that's one thing.

You don't have to be a nucleus or anything to be one of those.

They don't have to bother with patrols, they don't, they're lucky." He ambled along kicking a stone before him in a disconsolate, disgruntled way.