The Fading Sun Kutath Author:C J Cherryh From the dust jacket — Once, on a world called Kesrith, Stan Duncan had considered himself human. But that was just after the war with the regul...a war that had pitted mankind against a race of fierce, supremely skilled mercenaries who'd fought on the regui's behalf for 40 years: the mri. — Ironically, only two mri had survived the peace. The ... more »regul had betrayed their former henchmen in the end, and most of the humans on Kesrith had been relieved to the the last of their hated foes. Yet Duncan, moved by the mri's plight had gotten permission to join the two==Niun, a warrior, and his sister Melien, she' pan, Mother of the People---on a voyage to their home world, Kutath. And along the way, slowly, painfully, he had stripped away human habits and thoughts, and become mri.« less