 What is the name of the pilot who flies Mia’s scoutship and how does she characterize his piloting style?
The ancient rule was sink or swim—swim in the miasma of a planet without spaceflight, or sink to utter destruction! [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1963. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] I The horses and packs were loaded before we went aboard the scoutship. The scout bay is no more than a great oversized airlock with a dozen small ships squatting over their tubes, but it was the last of the Ship that I might ever see, so I took a long final look from the top of the ramp. There were sixteen of us girls and thirteen boys. We took our places in the seats in the center of the scout. I was feeling lost and just beginning to enjoy it when Jimmy Dentremont came over to me. "Mia, do you want to go partners if we can get together when we get down?" Well, I did when I wasn't mad at him, but now I had that crack he'd made about being a snob in mind, so I said, "Not likely. My name is Mia Havero. I'm short, dark and scrawny, though I don't expect that scrawniness to last much longer. Mother is very good looking. After we were all settled, George Fuhonin, the pilot, raised the ramps. We sat there for five minutes while they bled air out of our tube and then we just ... dropped. We didn't have to leave that way, but George thinks it's fun to be a hot pilot. He's the only competition I have my own age. The trouble is, you don't go partners with the competition, do you? The planet chosen for our Trial was called Tintera. The last contact the Ship had had with it—and we were the ones who dropped them—was almost 150 years ago. It didn't make any practical difference to us kids because they never tell you anything about the place they're going to drop you.
 George Fuhonin. His style drops the stomach out of everybody.
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