Forerunner Factor

On ancient port world planet Kuxortal, young Simsa grows up among garbagepickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization the Forerunners. But Simsa has always been different. Her skin isiridescent blue-black and she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet, abat-like zorsal. When Simsas mentor dies, she must scrape a poorexistence from an unyielding planet. But, then Thom, a star ranger, arrives fromthe heavens, and he leads Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins thattakes both through danger to the ultimate revelation. The truth may lie below inthe ancient high tech Forerunner ruins where Simsa was first discovered as ainfant, but these cavernous mazes are far from quiet and dead and whatSimsa discovers there will change her life, and perhaps galactic civilizationitself, forever! Two Andre Norton Forerunner novels, Forerunner andForerunner: The Second Venture, featuring young Forerunner/human hybridSimsa collected for the first time in one volume.