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The man in the door stepped outside then, and with a handlamp started offdown the hill toward the scouts, Dho-Kat following. Yes, he answered, I train with them. Those of us born to be warriors are trained by our war lodges to highcompetence. The heart of the region was a narrow plateau, hundreds of miles long,dissected lengthwise by long narrow draws into longitudinal ridges.

Basic to all that were the Ostrak Procedures,received from counselors of our own species in our first year of training. Instead of roads, they foundtangles of blowdown, occasional swamps of bull brush to push through,soft-snowed fens and bogs to cross. There was a small screen above itand a slanted keypad below. Year 18,619-The last of the 11 surviving habitable worlds is discovered.