Previously published as *The Inosculation Syndrome*. "Marooned on an uncharted planet, Kal wanders the savage wilderness on the edge of survival until he stumbles upon the Tribe living in a cave, near extinction and threatened by the local wildlife. Kal instigates the technical and cultural birthing of the tiny people which takes off at a breathtaking pace. But there is another technological force at play on the strange planet, a relic of some past civilisation, or something more current?"