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A warrior race dispatches one of their conquerors to the planet whereupon they have detected intelligent life, but after the ship has dropped him off and departed not to return for several years hence, he can find no sign of civilization. The weeks turn to months then months to years and eventually the warrior loses the will to live and expires on what appears to him to be a dead world. It turns out the inhabitants were disguised as rocks.