Incidentally, all planets have elliptical orbits, as do stars in binary and trinary systems. Even artificial satellites and probes follow elliptical orbits. It's called orbital mechanics. It's as much a miracle as weather patterns.
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.'
