. . . they have ships that move outside gravity wells, but no hyperdrives or artificial gravity?

"Up and down don't matter to the force. No down maybe makes it easier. I thought lumber because heavy trees but it sounds like I'll be on a sail to get there?"

"No, there's lumber harvesting here on this round, you can walk there."

"Which way, what name town?"

"Treehills, that way." Point.

Everyone is keeping their stories straight.

"Thank you. Any other advice for newcomer?"

"You should tell people how to make people who can do your thing."

You would be dead or enslaved in two weeks if your planet is as disarmed as it looks old man.

"I'll think about it. What do people need to know to make people with my thing?"

"- well, how were you made with it?"

"Born with it. I not made the way people here made. Do you ever do thing mother and father make small person?"

"...people don't do that."

"That how I made!"

"So you're some kind of animal with magic powers?"

"What exactly 'animal' mean?"

"A creature that isn't a human."

"I call myself human. Other people where I from call me human. What make me not human?"

"That you grew in another animal. That's how we get more goats or cows or sheep. Not people."

This is not even the weirdest form of speciesism Briseadh has encountered. "Do not people different from people if I talk? It okay to lie to me or steal from me or like that?"

"You're probably just wrong or lying," shrugs the elder. "Are you claiming to be an animal, is more the question."

"I claim to be human. I cannot prove I was made by two people. I not remember anything for first few years anyway. But I remember being smaller than I am now."

He shrugs.

"It not matter to me? I claim human, you seem happy talk to me like I human, it does not change what I do I think."

"Maybe you were made a child. Sometimes people do that."

"Maybe!"

Seems about the limit of useful information. Is it worth it to kill this guy to cover up the 'animal' thing? Seems not worth killing this guy.

"If no other advice I go try to make money, pay back person feed me first night, then go Treehills."

"How're you planning to make money?"

"Eventually, trees or sails. Today I do not have good plan better than ask for heavy chores. Do you have idea? I speak little this language, I have sense of sails and wise person and how money work, this not bad for second day."

"I don't know how long it normally takes former children to learn a language but it's not good enough for any job that wants much talking. You could haul water from the well for someone, perhaps, or pull rocks out of a field."