 What likely happens after the story ends?
He touched the pencil-line scar behind his ear where the cylinder was buried, marveling at the power stored there, power to fling him from earth to this fourth planet of the Centaurian system in an instant. A gray, funnel-shaped cloud of dust stood off to his left. Dark clouds capped one peak of the mountains on his left. There was no core, no central place you could point to and say, here is the brain, or the nervous system. But up to now the tube and the chain was the only evidence of an advanced technology, unless the ancient inscriptions in the stone wall of the pool, and the statues lining the wall were evidences.
 Stinson eventually brings his friends to live on the planet with him
 Sybtl and Stinson get together and Stinson forgets about his prior missions  Stinson and Sybtl are re-introduced into the web-footed community  Sybtl becomes upset with Stinson and makes sure he does not return  Stinson eventually brings his friends to live on the planet with him