The urban of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family members needs to courageous the barren region wastes, and go the extensive continents to the place Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, deserted, watching for the command to make the nice interstellar ships prepared for flight again.
But of those 16 humans, just a couple of have selected their exile. The others, Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands; Wetchik's oldest son, Elemak, were compelled opposed to their will. Their anger and hatreds will make the tough trip harder.
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She came across the kitchen tent simply enough—it used to be the single with a stone oven outdoors, the place Zdorab used to be baking bread. He seemed up at her really shamefacedly. “I needs to express regret, woman Rasa. I by no means acknowledged i used to be a baker. ” “But the bread smells wonderful,” acknowledged Rasa. “Smells, sure. i will be able to do smells. you have to capture a whiff of my favorite—I name it ‘burning fish. ’” Rasa laughed. She cherished this fellow. “You get fish from this move? ” “Your husband considered doing a little shore fishing down there. ” He pointed towards the place the circulate flowed into the placid waters of the Scour Sea. “So you had a few success? ” “Not really,” acknowledged Zdorab. “We stuck fish, yet they weren’t first-class. ” “Even those that didn’t get changed into your favourite scent . . . ” “Even those we stewed. There simply isn’t adequate existence at the land right here. The fish may assemble on the circulate mouth if there have been extra natural fabric within the sediment being deposited by way of the circulate. ” “You’re a geologist? ” requested Rasa, particularly shocked. “A librarian, so I’m a bit of every thing, I guess,” acknowledged Zdorab. “I was once attempting to work out why this position doesn’t have an everlasting human cost, and the explanation got here from the Index, a few outdated maps from the final time there has been a huge tradition during this zone. They constantly develop up at the colossal river simply over that mountain variety. ” He pointed east. “Right now there are nonetheless a number of minor towns there. the explanation they don’t use this spot is simply because there isn’t sufficient plantable land. And the river fails three hundred and sixty five days in 5. That’s too frequently to keep up a gradual inhabitants. ” “What do the baboons do? ” requested Rasa. “The Index doesn’t rather music baboons,” acknowledged Zdorab. “I bet not,” stated Rasa. “I wager the baboons must construct their very own Oversoul sometime, eh? ” “I bet. ” He regarded mildly wondered. “It’d support if they’d simply construct their very own latrine. ” Rasa raised an eyebrow. “We need to control them, so one among them doesn’t wander upstream folks after which foul our consuming water. ” “Mm,” stated Rasa. “That jogs my memory. I’m thirsty. ” “And hungry too, I’ll bet,” stated Zdorab. “Well, aid your self. Cool water and yesterday’s bread within the kitchen tent, locked up. ” “Well, if it’s locked up ... ” “Locked to baboons. For people, it may be effortless sufficient. ” whilst Rasa received into the kitchen tent she chanced on he was once correct. The “lock” used to be not anything yet a twist of cord preserving the solar-powered chilly chest closed. So why did they tension the truth that it used to be locked? maybe simply to remind her to shut it after her. She opened the lid and located a number of dozen loaves of bread, in addition to various different cloth-wrapped parcels of food—frozen meat, possibly? No, it couldn’t be frozen, it wasn’t chilly adequate inside of. She reached down and opened one of many programs and located, in fact, camel’s milk cheese. Nasty stuff—she had eaten it as soon as prior to, at Volemak’s apartment, while she was once vacationing him as soon as among the 2 occasions they have been married. “See how a lot I enjoyed you? ” he had teased her. “The entire time we have been married, and that i by no means made you style this!