Well, it don't amount to a hill of beans if you can't yank the iron out of the fire at the eleventh hour. There's a lot riding on this, when all's said and done. Not that I have a horse in this race, but we could at least run it up the flagpole and see if the cat licks it up.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'