SHARLS DAVIS KENDY Once a Checker for the State, now deceased. Also, the recordings of Sharls Davis Kendy's personality in the master computer of the seeder ramship Discipline and its service spacecraft.

Quinn Tuft

GAVVING A young warrior subject to allergies.

HARP The teller, or bard.

LAYTHON The Chairman's son.

MARTAL Quinn Tuft's cook (deceased).

THE SCIENTIST Quinn Tuft's guardian of knowledge.

THE GRAD The Scientist's half-trained apprentice.

THE CHAIRMAN Ruler of Quinn Tribe.

CLAVEA mighty warrior, the Chairman's son-in-law.

MAYRIN Clave's wife, the Chairman's daughter.

JAYAN and JINNY Twin sisters enamored of Gave.

MERRIL An older woman, strong, but barren. Small, withered legs.

JIOVAN A hunter.

GLORY A woman of unwanted fame.

ALFIN An older man, Keeper of the treemouth.

Others

MINYA A fighting woman of the Truine Squad, of Dalton-Quinn Tu~

SAI~ SMITI'A, JEEL, THANYA, DENISSE Others of the Triune Squad.

KARA Sharman (or Scientist) of Carther States.

DEBBIE, ILSA, HILD, LIZETH, ANTHON Citizens of Carther States.

KLANCE London Tree's Scientist.

LAWRI London Tree's Scientist's Apprentice.

HORSE, JORG, HELN, GWEN Copsiks in London Tree.

DLORIS, HARYET, KOR Supervisors in London Tree.

KARAL, MARK, PATRY London Tree Navy men.

Glossary

BLUE GHOST and GHOST CHILD-Auroralike glow patches produced by magnetic effects above Levoy's Star's poles. Rarely visible.

BRANCH-One at each end of an integral tree, curving to leeward. BRANCHLEI'S-Grow from the spine branches and sprout into foliage

CARM-Cargo And Repair Module. Discipline originally carried ten of these.

THE CLUMPS-The L4 and L5 points for Gold. They tend to collect debris.

COPSIK-Slave. Used as a general insult.

COPSIK-RUNNER-Slavetaker or slavemaster.

COUON-CANDY JUNGLE or JUNGLES-Describes almost any large cluster of plants. A good many plants and clusters of plants look like fluffy green cotton candy. Many are edible.

DAY-One orbit about Levoy's Star, the neutron star (equals two hours for Dalton-Quinn Tree).

DUMBO-A predator of the integral trees.

FAN FUNGUS-An integral tree parasite. Parts are edible

"FEED THE TREE"-Defecate, or move garbage, or die.

FLASHER-An insectivorous bird.

equal to 1.3S~ barth years.GHOST CHILD-See BLUE GHOST.

GO FOR GOLD-Rush headlong into diaster. Or battle!

GOLD-See GOLDBLAITS WORLD. Secondary meaning: something to avoid.

GOLDBLATPS WORLD-A gas giant planet captured after Levoy's Star went supernova/neutron. Named for Discipline's Astrophysicist, Sam Goldblatt.

HUTS-Any dwelling. In the integral trees, huts are woven from living spine branches.

INTEGRAL TREE-A crucial plant.

JET POD-Some plants grow pods that may be carried for attitude control: they jet gases (of corruption, or of oxygen in plants that favor the outer fringes of the Smoke Ring). Other plants fire seeds when dying, or going to seed, or falling too far out of the Smoke Ring. There are tropisms.

LEVOY'S STAR-A neutron star, the heart of the Smoke Ring system.

Named for its discoverer, Sharon Levoy, Astrogator assigned to Discipline.

NOSE-ARM-See DUMBO.

OLD-MAN'S-HAIR-A fungus parasite on integral trees.

POND-Any large globule of water.

PRIKAZYVAT-Originally, Russian for "command." Presently used to activate computer programs.

QUINN TUFr-The in tuft (or point nearest Levoy's Star) of DaltonQuinn Tree.