"What shall we do?" asked Viri.
"I don't know what good it will do," said Ullo, pausing in the doorway, "but you might make your wills. Personally, I intend to apply for transfer to some colony lying in the opposite direction from this Sol. Record of us, and a ship to reach us—we might as well have sent them an invitation!"
He remembered their unhappy eyes two yaras later, when the regular bulletin tapes sent out to the colonies reported Ahnu's dismissal. Ullo applied for a post at a more distant colony.
After one yara at the new post, the monthly tapes from Yaradir were interrupted. Everybody complained about the service.
Everybody but Ullo.
He commandeered a subspace ship, and moved on.
But not ... far ... enough....