Naturally and of necessity, the Meteor survivors, including their captain, follow Valland's lead. Captain Argens writes:
"We followed him. And we built our spaceboat and won to the help of the Yonderfolk. The job took four decades." (p. 119)
Argens' daughter, Wenli, was only a few years when last he saw her in City. She will be forty-plus years older the next time that they meet and maybe no longer in City. In the concluding chapter, Argens and Valland are on the quiet Earth where Argens reflects:
""This was Manhome. No matter how far we range, the salt and the rhythm of her tides will always be in our blood." (p. 124)
Sandra Miesel quotes the second sentence at the end of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History:
"To Earth there's no returning. She vanished with the childhood of our race. Yet as a poet once said, 'No matter how far we range, the salt and rhythm of her tides will always be in our blood.' One chapter has ended. Humankind's saga flows on."
-Sandra Miesel, interstitial material IN Poul Anderson, Starship (New York, June 1982), p. 282.
We have quoted this sentence from both works together with other similar passages before. See here. (Scroll down.)
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