 What DIDN'T Mia learn at the campsite she located?
The ancient rule was sink or swim—swim in the miasma of a planet without spaceflight, or sink to utter destruction! I The horses and packs were loaded before we went aboard the scoutship. Either your arches and calves ache or every time you step you think you're going to trip on a piece of fluff and break your neck. We have a place in the Ship like that—the Third Level—but it's only a thousand square miles and any time it gets on your nerves you can go up a level or down a level and be back in civilization. When we reached Tintera, they started dropping us. I began to check my gear out—sonic pistol, pickup signal so I could be found at the end of the month, saddle and cinches, food and clothes. At our next landing, I grabbed Ninc's reins and cut Venie out smoothly. It was spring on Tintera, but it was December in the Ship, and after we got back we had five days of Holiday to celebrate. It was narrow and made of sand spread over a hard base. One of the smartest moves in history was to include horses when they dropped the colonies. Considering how short a time it was in which the colonies were established, there was not time to set up industry, so they had to have draft animals. I don't know how many of those planets had animals that could have been substituted but, even if they had, they would have had to be domesticated from scratch.
 Why the ship flew over her head
 Why the ship flew over her head  People grow old and gray on this planet  The Trial kids weren't welcome on Tintera  Horst keeps his animals in the pen