# 3 waves of colonists *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 02 Jun 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *02 Jun 1998, 04:21* There could be more than one wave of ancient colonists to Sainte Anne. Arbitrarily: Gondwanaland: the Shadow Children (goblins) Etruscan Italy: the Wetlanders (trolls) Homeric Greece: the Free People (elves and dryads) Poictsme: ? Country of Friends: ? --------------------- A note about the lethal twins and David: I wonder if David was designed by Maitre to be his own tanist--that is, a twin for Number Five to kill in rivalry instead of killing Maitre in usurpation? It nearly happens, when the attack on the "mantis" slave goes awry and Number Five's knife goes into David's thigh (with shades of the brother-kill-brother in "A Story"). As Maitre patches David's leg up without comment, he must be realizing that the ploy didn't work. =mantis= ---