Bloodthirsty predators, mutant cannibals, and greedy, merciless Olivian bandits attacked the Earthlings. Losing comrades, the mercenaries kept stubbornly moving toward their goal. In Lendville, Ausville, and Klon, the scouts found loyal friends, and in the valley of the Dead Rocks Oles first saw a strange dream in which allegory and reality were astonishingly mixed. Tino took it as a message from above…