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"Can't you guess?" She shook her head. "I have seen nothing but you reading this ancient book, yet you turn to me with the look in your eyes that the redes say Ulf had for Lyssa." "You're human!" Copper shrugged. "You're mad. I'm a Lani. I was born a Lani and I shall die one." "Don't you understand? All Lani are human.
According to this log it was bought by Alfred and Melissa Weygand a missionary couple with the idea of spreading the Christian faith to the heathen. "Alfred and Melissa Ulf and Lyssa they were a part of this ancient explosion that scattered human seed across parsecs of interstellar space.
He heard the trial of Roga and the details of his torture by the priests of Ulf and the priests of Lyssa united by this greatest sacrilege. And he heard the Lani version of the landing of Alexander's ship and man's conquest of Flora. It was a story of savagery and superstition, of blood and intolerance, of bravery and cowardice, of love and beauty.
"A part of an ancient religion one that is still followed on some of the Central Worlds. Its followers call themselves Christians. They say it came from Earth, the mother-world of men." "Our faith has no name. We are children of Lyssa, who was a daughter of the Master." "It is an odd similarity," Kennon said. "But other races have had stories of the Creation.
All of the life conceived by the Master, Varied in shape as the grasses and birds; Hunters and hunted, moveless and moving, Came into form at the sound of His words. "That's a great deal like Genesis," Kennon said with mild astonishment. "Where could you have picked that up?" "From the beginning of our race," Copper said. "It came to us with Ulf and Lyssa but what is Genesis?"
"I've told you a thousand times that the radiation on this ship must have affected Ulf and Lyssa's germ plasm. Can't you understand that?" "I can understand it all right, but it does not change things. Ulf and Lyssa may have been human before they came here, but they were not when they landed. They were Lani, and their children were Lani." "But they were of human stock."
With a muttered curse he rose to his feet, and as he did he stopped frozen staring at Copper as though he had never seen her before. "How did you say that Roga was judged responsible for Alexander coming here?" he demanded. "He went into Lyssa's tower where Ulf and Lyssa tried to call Heaven and with his foolish meddling set the tower alight with a glow that all could see.
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What he believed might be good enough to hold up in a Brotherhood court, but he doubted it. Ulf and Lyssa might be the founders of the Lani race, but they had come to Kardon nearly four thousand years ago and no records existed to prove that the Lani weren't here before they came. Redes passed by word of mouth through hundreds of generations were not evidence.
He learned how the Lani grew in numbers and power, how they split into two warring groups over the theological point of whether Ulf or Lyssa was the principal deity, how Roga the Foolish opened Lyssa's tower to find out whether the Ulfians or Lyssans were right, and brought the Black Years to Flora.
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