To plan. Originally he had intended to be halfway to Van Maanan's Star before he changed course. That would have given him fifteen years' head start in case.

      "There is danger . . . " she began in a bare whisper glanc- ing apprehensively eastward.       F'lar did not question by what miracle she appreciated the imminence of danger. He had every intention of taking her to the Weyr by sheer force if necessary. But something within him wanted very much for her.
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Of blood and life. Let me put that in a way that may be new to some readers. Let me remind you of what is sometimes told as a jest the fact that the number of one's ancestors increases as we look back in time. Disregarding the chances of intermarriage each one of us had two parents four grandparents eight great-grandparents and so on backward until very soon in less than fifty generations we should find that but for the qualification introduced we should have all the earth's inhabitants of that time as our progenitors. For a hundred generations it must hold absolutely true that everyone of that time who has issue living now is ancestral to all of us. That brings the thing quite within the historical period. There is not a western European palaeolithic or neolithic relic that is not a family relic for every soul alive. The blood in our veins has handled it. And there.
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