John Birnam, appearing only in the fourteen page juvenile short story, "Rescue on Avalon," is allergic to Ythrians and resents the granting of his beloved Andromeda Mountains to the Ythrian colonists on Avalon by a joint decision of the two planetary authorities, the Parliament of Man and the Great Khruath. However, despite suffering greatly from his allergy, Jack saves the life of the injured Wyvan of Stormgate Choth.
Consequently, Stormgate will pay for a cure for his allergy. Further, Jack and any guests of his will always be welcome in the Andromedas, called by the Ythrians the Weathermother - a heartwarming story of differences transcended and of enmity overcome, especially since the following story in the History of Technic Civilization is of Gorzuni raiding Earth for slaves, of a ship load of those slaves slaying their captors and of that liberated ship then bombarding Gorzun.
Human beings and Ythrians share Avalon but must later fight the Empire that was founded by the leader of those escaped slaves.
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