and since it was only fair that he repay the favour of huxors elucidation , wixelor told him how both lurien and feerien had been and still were in a state of dire disquiet , the former stricken by infertility and the latter by a suspension of life and death alike ; how a hole had appeared in the immaculate sky of the sphere of untouch and how the sphere of toil was dreading the return of the evil seventh moon .