Dream Time

    The Athsheans take a few dreamless catnaps that spread throughout the day and go into a state where they know that they are dreaming. They also see the "dream-time" as a world just as real as the "world-time" and they have no control over the dreams generated by the "poisons". Most of the "yumens" make no effort to understand this and drive them harder when they catch the Athsheans "daydreaming." Deprived of sleep, the slaves' mental and physical health deteriorates. The only human who begins to understand this is the colony's anthropologist, Raj Lyubov, who saves several slaves from deaths at Davidson's hands. When a tiny native woman is raped by Davidson and dies of her wounds, her husband, Selver, begins to dream of war. He is the only one to dream this and is willing to tell his plans to the others.