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Mesvik watched him leave. ' Trevelos shrugged, spreading his hands. Years 12 to roughly 100-On 8 of the 11 planets, the remaining humans, ifany, succumb to severe conditions. The farm families in the Halvess settlement had accepted him as Smoleni;he'd continue as one.

Despite his self-invalidation, he had sense enough to realize that in life asa whole he was competent: intelligent, diligent, and generally ethical. He'd madecompetitions of it, and before the ten days were over, the men werecompetent and confident. The T'swa were more than an intelligencereport now. The goal had not been to produceseers or psychics, simply highly stable, highly rational, highly ethicalpeople for the Movement.