(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[Gerry Quinn]

From: "Ryan Dunn" <ryan at liftingfaces.com>
> Agilus is the obvious suspect here. The one who obsesses over Jovinian 
> steel. The one whose image she has assumed. > The problem is just the 
> misdirect with Hethor coming to their rag shop, which we are to assume 
> Agia and Agilus inherited from their mother. Either that or simply take 
> that story as a lie, and Hethor's as a truth.

If Agia really was Hethor's paracoita rather than a human woman - I'm less 
than convinced of this, but there have been some interesting arguments made 
to that effect - might not Agilus have been another such?  It might be that 
male and female paracoitae look similar, perhaps even having interchangeable 
parts.  Male ones being slightly built would save weight and space after 
all, which would be convenient for someone who spends a lot of time in a 
box, or at least convenient for his or her owner.  It would make them twins 
in a real sense. Perhaps they ran off together when their spacecraft landed.

Nobody has to change their face.  In fact the possibility is added that Agia 
is a different paracoita other than the one lost by Hethor, but Hethor 
recognised her as being one, since they all have similar looks.

(If this is the case, I suspect the original owner of the rag shop met an 
unfortunate end.)

- Gerry Quinn