[Atomic bombs... another phrase he's learned here. He had been looking unfocused into the dark while listening, enjoying the cigarette, but now his eyes turn sharply to Danse's.]

Those bombs - people tried them here. When the first world eater arrived, they fired one at it and survived. So everyone in town who it hadn't killed or decayed took masks and went underground, and they fired a volley of them at it. They never learned if it actually worked but it was the strongest weapon they had.

Did the people of your world ever come up with something stronger?