"We estimate the global population at only three billion, now. That means three billion people have died in the last fifteen years." Spittzler pauses. If he’s not the cleanest person Sniffy has seen in the last ten years, he’s a close runner-up. His blue eyes are calm and precise and even though he looks twenty-five Sniffy figures he’s at least fifty. Then again, he probably looked just as over-controlled when he was twenty-five for real. "May I ask you," Spittzler says, "your opinion of this terrible catastrophe?"