The newcomer is a young neutrois person named Ulpe with long, uneasy fingers.

Most people do work, because money buys a better class of needs. Fetter has adapted in the opposite direction.

But he cannot slow his heart. Lessons learned in childhood leave deep roots and are not easily plucked out by adult reasoning.

He had the grand realization that he had to leave to grow.

She is an adult, with an adult’s fears and an adult’s mad plans. Like a feral beast. She is too dangerous—he should flee. She will get him killed doing something he doesn’t even understand.

It reminds him of being free and wild, wandering the world. He’s allowed this city to civilize him, so gradually he didn’t even feel the loss of that wildness. It would be good to have a little of it back.