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been psycho-probed; she is afraid of losing him. But Rik insists that he must leave the mill and the village and find out more about himself.
Valona goes for help to Myrlyn Terens, the Townman who is the local representative of the absentee landlords, the Squires of Sark. Terens takes Rik to the City. All other cities on Florina have names, but this one is simply the "City" and is shadowed by Upper City, "a horizontal layer of fifty square miles of cementalloy resting upon some twenty thousand steel-girdered pillars" where the citizens of Sark live while on Florina, along with a sprinkling of mercenary "patrollers." Terens is a Florinian native who was educated on Sark, the home planet of the Squires. He hates them and plans to use Rik to get revenge on them. He takes Rik to the Upper City library where Rik, with help, discovers the Encyclopedia of Sark article on Spatio-analysis. The article mentions that the Spatio-analyst is "an introverted and, often enough, maladjusted individual." The official slogan of the Spatio-analyst Institute is "We Analyze Nothing.'' Rik realizes that he was a Spatio-analyst. But when he tries to consult other books, instructions direct him to the Librarian. The Librarian accosts him and Terens, and they are confronted by an overage patroller before Valona shows up and knocks out the patroller with his own neuronic whip.
The three escape from Upper City by elevator but are pursued by patrollers. A passerby tells them to seek help at Khorov's bakery, where they slip through a dummy radar furnace (a foreshadowing of the microwave oven) into a hidden room. The baker, Khorov, seems to know a great deal about the situation. He leaves a door open so that Terens can leave and tells Valona she can leave but that Rik must stay.
Meanwhile, on Sark, Dr. Selim Junz, a Spatio-analyst from Libair (a planet perhaps originally settled by blacks fleeing Liberia), has been searching for a Spatio-analyst who disappeared nearly a year before and was last reported in space near Sark. A message had been received from a field man that "the life of every human being on Florina was in danger" and "All Galaxy affected," but field men are considered strange, if not psychopathic. The Sarkites, however, insist that the Spatio-analyst did not land on Sark. In previous consultation with the old Trantorian ambassador, Ludigan Abel, Junz revealed his conviction that the Spatio-analyst landed on Sark and was imprisoned and probably killed because the Sarkites could not stand to have the whole dirty mess of Sark-Florina political relationships exposed to the Galaxy. Junz had asked Abel to find out if the Spatio-analyst was killed. Junz asked the Sarkites to place standard works about Spatio-analysis on reserve in libraries and to report non-Sarkites who ask for them. If the Spatio-

 
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