“And those who leave—Toaht and Akjai—you’ll never see them again?” “I won’t. At some time in the distant future, a group of my descendants might meet a group of theirs. I hope that will happen. Both will have divided many times. They’ll have acquired much to give one another.” “They probably won’t even know one another. They’ll remember this division as mythology if they remember it at all.” “No, they’ll recognize one another. Memory of a division is passed on biologically. I remember every one that has taken place in my family since we left the homeworld.”
