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I will read and sign it. He touched theswitch which closed the door and retracted the steps, then raised thefloater vertically and abruptly to sixty feet and swept away across the roofin a course that curved northward. Obviously the old tree's roots had been badly rotted withflute in advance; the wind had defeated a giant already failing. Even the concept was foreign; they'd had to borrow it fromthe Confederatswa.

He was already man-sized and morethan man-strong, with a reputation among the drifters for ferocity in fights. The people had sunk into stone-age primitivism, andsevere environmental selection, perhaps combined with genetic drift, hadproduced a very distinct species of Homo. And neither of them approached Usu or Dzo-Dek for any further lectureson the T'swa or the T'sel. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:KNOW YOU BY THIS CERTIFICATE THAT KONNI WENTER, BY VIRTUEOF HER PARTICIPATION IN THE 711.