 Had the narrator vehemently denied his position as Yandro, would the opinions of the people have likely changed?
He was Yandro, the Stranger of the Prophecy—and he found that he was destined to fight both sides. [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Planet Stories Summer 1944. I felt first—pressure on my brow and chest, as if I lay face downward; then the tug and buffet of a strong, probing wind, insistent but not cold, upon my naked skin. Words formed themselves on my thick tongue, words that must have been spoken by so many reviving unfortunates through the ages: "Where am I?" And at once there was an answer: " You lie upon the world Dondromogon. I knew the language of that answer, but where it came from—above, beneath, or indeed within me—I could not say. "It was ordered—by the Masters of the Worlds—that you should be brought from your own home planet, called Earth in the System of the star called Sun. Vague matters stirred deep in me, but I could not for certain say they were memories. "You do not know that. It is as well, for this will be a birth and beginning of your destined leadership on Dondromogon." The voice was telling me that I had been snatched from worlds away, for a specified purpose here on whatever windswept planet Dondromogon might be. "It is a world the size of your native one," came words of information. One face of Dondromogon ever looks to the light and heat, wherefore its metals run in glowing seas. The other face is ever away in cold darkness, with its air freezing into solid chunks. But because Dondromogon wavers on its axis, there are two lunes of its surface which from time to time shift from night to day. My eyes were tight shut against the dust, but they saw in imagination such a planet—one-half incandescent, one-half pitchy black. From pole to pole on opposite sides ran the two twilight zones, widest at the equators like the outer rind of two slices of melon.
 No, because the inhabitants strictly uphold and respect the prophecy that named the narrator as Yandro.
 No, because the narrator would eventually be forced against his own will to be Yandro.  Yes, because the narrator would have been sent back to Earth for his denial of the position.  Yes, because the inhabitants would have instead acted distastefully towards the narrator for not wanting to assume the position.  No, because the inhabitants strictly uphold and respect the prophecy that named the narrator as Yandro.