(urth) Travelin' Jahlee
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
Thu Aug 11 00:48:42 PDT 2005
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:33:27 -0700 "Roy C. Lackey"
<rclackey at stic.net> wrote:
>Thalassocrat quoted and wrote:
>>>Either way, what was Wolfe's point in having her go
>>
>>>to Blue
>>>before she could fly properly?
>>>
>>>Has anyone a better answer?
>
>>Wolfe may have nodded.
>
>Maybe. But I have the feeling I'm missing something. Silkhorn even
>asked
>her, in so many words, if her first visit to that room had been
>made before
>her first trip to Blue. "She did not answer." (60) There has to be
>more to
>it!
>
>-Roy
Perhaps the mystery of the tall figure with the bird-like gait &
the squat, dome-like building up the top have to be solved first.
I continue to hope that the figure is a Neighbor-naut and the
"building" is his spacecraft, his close-fitting cloak (or whatever
the description) is his spacesuit, and that this is the point from
which Neighbors take inhumi to seed the Whorl. I posted a long time
ago some flimsy reasons for thinking this might be the case;
partly, the figure seemed to me the most plausible candidate
Neighbor for telling Silkhorn about the Whorl-seeding.
As I mentioned, another possibility for the Jahlee timeline is that
one of her parents was one of these Whorl-inhumi, returned by the
Neighbors to Green (and presumably to this region of Green, which
would explain what the young Jahlee was doing there). If this
return happened before the first human exodus from the Whorl, it
would give Jahlee plenty of time to grow & become a void-crosser.
One thing to note: I think it must be the case that the Neighbors
took primitve inhumi to the Whorl, let them drink human blood,
brought them back to Green, let them breed & then took some of the
sentient offspring back to the Whorl. How else to explain Quetzal?
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