For Man Whose

Adult life come to be marked by so many strange and miraculous events, Montaro

Caine had a

comparatively

unremarketable

childhood.
In fact during

the times

when Montaro

would look back

upon his earliest

years-before his

father died

before the

arrival of the

SeventhShip

before a

deformed black

boy only a few

years older than

Montaro himself

would make him

a gift that would

change

Montaro's life

forever-he

would remember

his youth as if it

had taken place

in some distant

galaxy light

years away.