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By the tione, with almost two hundred kilometers behind them, they had talked about every conceivable subject at least twice, and finally walked along in coencies of their journey forced them to speak

One-sentence warnings: "Don't grab that vine, it's not secure"

Scientific speculations: "I wonder if that bright-colored froglike thing is venomous?"

"I doubt it, considering that it's a rock"

"Oh It was so vivid I thought--"

"A good guess And you're not a geologist, so how could you be expected to recognize a rock?"

Mostly there was nothing but their breathing, their footfalls, and the sounds and s itself to the first of the huh this portion of it

At two hundred clicks, though, it was time to stop They had rationed carefully, but their food was half gone They pitched a more per a latrine, and pitched the tent with the stakes deeper and the ground more padded under the floor of it They would be here for a week

A week, because that's about how long they expected to be able to live on the htered that afternoon

Sel was sorry that only two of the dogs were sh to extrapolate from the skins and carcasses that their huer reliable companions Those two left--they had to drive the other pair aith stones

By now, like everyone else in the colony, both Sel and Po kne to preserveit; they cooked only a little of theto s limbs of a fernlike treeor treelike fern

They h circle on the satellitethey set out in a different direction to see what they ht find Now they collected saraphs that they bounced to the orbiting transport ship for storage on the big computer there The pictures they sent up, the test results, those were secure--they would not be lost, no matter what happened to Sel and Po

The physical sah, were by far the ht the far more sophisticated equipment--the new equip