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Title: Star Born

Author: Andre Norton

Release Date: May 27, 2006 [EBook #18458]

Language: English

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STAR BORN

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"What of our children--the second and third generations born
on this new world? They will have no memories of Terra's
green hills and blue seas. Will they be Terrans--or
something else?"

--TAS KORDOV, _Record of the First Years_

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1

SHOOTING STAR

The travelers had sighted the cove from the sea--a narrow bite into
the land, the first break in the cliff wall which protected the
interior of this continent from the pounding of the ocean. And,
although it was still but midafternoon, Dalgard pointed the outrigger
into the promised shelter, the dip of his steering paddle swinging in
harmony with that wielded by Sssuri in the bow of their narrow,
wave-riding craft.

The two voyagers were neither of the same race nor of the same
species, yet they worked together without words, as if they had
established some bond which gave them a rapport transcending the need
for speech.

Dalgard Nordis was a son of the Colony; his kind had not originated on
this planet. He was not as tall nor as heavily built as those Terran
outlaw ancestors who had fled political enemies across the Galaxy to
establish a foothold on Astra, and there were other subtle