They find temporary refuge at a southern Lakewalker encampment, where Dag begins serious training as a healer to further his plan of setting up as a healer in a Farmer community. He can't play by their rules, though, and is sent on his way after leaving the grounds to try to help a boy with tetanus.
The tale begins to resemble the old Nevil Shute book, Pied Piper, as they acquire more and more members of their party as they move out. By the way, Fawn is pregnant by this time.
They do, after many crises, have enough folks to settle and create a mixed population community.
This series is rather like one book that was just too long. So, instead of packing it all into a ten or eleven hundred page volume, Bujold broke it up into four volumes. The breaks are logical, I suppose, but each one begins literally within the moments following the end of the previous volume. I enjoyed it, but Dag is no Miles Vorkosigan.
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