[ Well, that's new, and its utter foreignness is easier to accept than-- ]

Earth.

[ This again. He taps ash off his cigarette, a mix of nonchalance and irritation. ] Where I'm from, it's a fiction, just-- made up superstition about a Thirteenth Tribe. But I've heard it bandied about as the home place of humankind, here, which is, of course, silly.