Crossword-Solution: TRAILMEN 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

During the last epidemic, a Terran scientist discovered a blood fraction containing antibodies against the fever--in the trailmen.

Bomb the trailmen--and the Hellers--right off the planet." Jay's face was set in lines of loathing, which he controlled after a minute, and said, "I--I didn't mean that.

There were no obvious blanks in my memory; from the moment Jay Allison had spoken of the trailmen, my past had rushed back and stood, complete to yesterday's supper (only had I eaten that supper twelve years ago)? I remembered my father, a lined silent man who had liked to fly solitary, taking photograph after photograph from his plane for the meticulous work of Mapping and Exploration.

Then the Old-One's painful decision that I was too alien for them, and the difficult and dangerous journey my trailmen foster-parents and foster-brothers had undertaken, to help me out of the Hellers and arrange for me to be taken to the Trade City.

After two years of physically painful and mentally rebellious readjustment to daytime living, the owl-eyed trailmen saw best, and lived largely, by moonlight, I had found a niche for myself, and settled down.