"I am surprised that you could sleep so soundly while your worms went slack!"

His worms went sick, and Lankwiler could not face up to the challenge.

The worm sees a bird in the distance and goes back down into his hole.

A few minutes later, the bore worms had gone, vanishing into the bushes on the other side of the road.

They've survived by crossing the rock areas where worms seldom go.

"When the worm has gone, one may try to walk out," Kynes said.

You can land on the sand close to the rocks there, where the worms can't go.

Rescue ships could not come back for them until the worm had gone.

He started shouting at Emma again, telling her to make the worms go away before they smelled his blood and came after him.

Even if you can't make it, the worm will probably go for the thumper first.