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Rooter somehow the father of half of them. Before today Miro would have dismissed the statement of Rooter's fatherhood as part of the piggies' totemic belief system. But having seen a tree uproot itself and fall apart in response to singing, he was prepared to question all his old assumptions.
Yet what good did it do to learn anything now? They'd never let him report again; he couldn't follow up; he'd be aboard a starship for the next quarter century while someone else did all his work. Or worse, no one else.
"Don't be unhappy," said Human. "You'll see-- the Speaker for the Dead will make it all work out well."
"The Speaker. Yes, he'll make everything work out fine." The way he did for me and Ouanda. My sister.
"The hive queen says he'll teach the framlings to love us."
"Teach the framlings," said Miro. "He'd better do it quickly then. It's too late for him to save me and Ouanda. They're arresting us and taking us off planet."
"To the stars?" asked Human hopefully.
"Yes, to the stars, to stand trial! To be punished for helping you. It'll take us twenty-two years to get there, and they'll never let us come back."
The piggies took a moment to absorb this information. Fine, thought Miro. Let them wonder how the Speaker is going to solve everything for them. I trusted in the Speaker, too, and it didn't do much for me. The piggies conferred together.
Human emerged from the group and came closer to the fence. "We'll hide you."
"They'll never find you in the forest," said Mandachuva.
"They have machines that can track me by my smell," said Miro.
"Ah. But doesn't the law forbid them to show us their machines?" asked Human.
Miro shook his head. "It doesn't matter. The gate is sealed to me. I can't cross the fence." The piggies looked at each other.
"But you have capim right there," said Arrow.
Miro looked stupidly at the grass. "So what?" he asked. "Chew it," said Human.