[That's most likely the case — that whatever paths home that might exist are neither easily found nor easily walked. Then again, it could be that everyone brought here to date has proven to be incompetent in such matters — but he will assume the former for now, unless and until the latter proves to be true.]

I doubt it. Food, water, weapons — these things should not be so rare that it's necessary to reach into other worlds for them.

But men with both the willpower and ability to do what must be done? I have not known many of those, even among all those who came to my homeland to fight their wars.