At a place like the Parmesan Desert, it was common to find certain kinds of ruins. A cloud of fine, gold-brown dust hanged momentarily before settling again, kicked up by the rapid, almost frantic movements of Torteau Fromagé Cookie.

"Oh, marvelous! Absolutely marvelous!" They exclaim, wiping a speck of dust from her vest. "Look at this strata! You can clearly differentiate the late-Sugar Cube Period sediments from the early-Chalky Layer—nearly two thousand years of history in this one small pit!"