(urth) grumble at wolfe comment made attached to guardianarticle

[Roy C. Lackey]

Gerry Quinn quoted and wrote:
> > So...how DID Quetzal get aboard the Whorl????
>
> The Neighbours brought inhumi to the Whorl.  We are told in Chapter 11 of
> _Return to the Whorl_:
>
>
> ***********************************************
> Then, "Sometime back like you I go, mysire?"
>
> "Back to Viron, you mean, Vadsig?"
>
> "To Viron, yes, mysire. Also to Grotestad. To go to the Long Sun Whorl I
> would like. Always of it you talk, and cook, and my old master and
mistress.
> In Grotestad they were born, mysire, but never it I have seen."
>
> I told her it was possible she would.
>
> "There the Vanished People went?"
>
> I nodded.
>
> "To greet us it was?"
>
> "You might put it so, though they were sensible enough to find out a good
> deal about us - and infect us with inhumi -"
>
> *************************************************

Quite so. The inhumi were introduced into the LSW by the Neighbors.
Windcloud was one of them:

"I was one of those who boarded your whorl when it neared our sun. In the
_Whorl_, I made the acquaintance of many of your race, and I have known
others since, on both the whorls we once called ours." (RTTW, 232)

-Roy