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Secondly, their T'seleducation and training allowed them to excel both in learning and decisionmaking, and of course they were emotionally very stable. And this mandeclared rules of conduct, and rules of duties, that so far as possible theymight continue to seek without the distractions of misconduct, for they didnot yet know T'sel. They were by then far outside the garthidsector, and they found a planet where people could live. Kristal wasn't letting grass grow under his feet or theirs.

Bin's attention was totheir original right; the T'swa had lined up facing that direction now. The missile trucks stilled. At 2145 the lights went out. 28Equinox was well past, and the snow, still twenty inches deep, had beensettling wetly beneath the springtime sun.