follow the ways of their ancestors, it was now possible for the tribes to know what those ways were by listening to & Reverend Mother's observations of die past she could view "within" When it was also discovered that the memories of one Reverend Mother could be passed to her successor by means of the poison, the Zensunm were at last certain that their history could be accurately passed from generation to generation The word-of-mouth records of the Sayyadina would no longer be their only link to their past As soon as their survival on Rossak appeared reasonably secure, the Zensunm began to plan for their survival elsewhere If, they reasoned the emperor's soldier-fanatics were going to be sent on one mission after another to relocate them, might it not be better to relocate themselves, fim9 Toward that end and with great misgivings the Zensunm made their first, cautious approaches to then- neighbors Young Zensunm men and women hired out to work on the farms of those who were not doing as well as the farmers m their own community The older women used their medical skills ac quired by bitter experience with their own people, to heal the sick outside their own settlement In spite of these outside occupations, each of the Zensunm continued his or her own labors inside the settlement, keeping the com mumty self-reliant while building up, a bit at a time, the passage money their descendants would need to escape It was not an easy process nor a quick one, but m 7193 the funds were there the settlement's leaders had only to decide where those who were leaving would go There was a type of rejoicing among the Zensunm that they had not known in generations And sorrow, as well This time, the Zensunm themselves would be doing the dividing among their people, for it had been possible to accumulate only enough to buy passage for the young Guild rates were ruinously ex pensive In the end, it was a Guildsman who provid ed the Zensunm with their choice of destina non A representative with whom the Zensunm leaders had been negotiating revealed that the location of the descendants of the Lost Ones-the Zensunnt's term tor their members who had been abducted to Salusa Secundus so many centuries earlier-was known to the Guild, and that he could ar range passage for their youths to that world The bargain was struck Belore the young men and women left the settlement to board the Guildsman s ship a Sayyadma among (heir number was admitted to the Reverend Mother nte and entrusted with a supply of the plants which produced the necessary poison Their memories thus passed safely ZENSUNNI, HISTORY 516 ZENSUNNI HISTORY on, the old Zensunm watched their sons and daughters walk away, knowing they would not see them again And knowing, too, that their odds of surviving another winter on Rossak without them were negligible HARMONTHEP Of the lives of the Zensunm transported to Harmonthep (the majority of those taken from Bela Tegeuse), nothing