(urth) On dream travelers

Gerry Quinn gerryq at indigo.ie
Sat Feb 12 07:11:05 PST 2011


> I don't know for sure. During one of Hoof's astral warps to Urth, he 
> started
> making little things out of nothing. That violates natural law, in and of
> itself, but then he went on to *make* Hide: "Then I looked around to see 
> if
> anybody was watching, and I made Hide." (RTTW, 363). Real humans can't 
> make
> people. Because Hoof had the attention span of a gnat, he wasn't able to
> hold his brother there for long, but he did it, and Hide hadn't even been 
> on
> Silkhorn's boat when they went to sleep. Afterward, Hide said he had no
> knowledge of any such thing having happened to him (ibid). Was Hide really
> there, or was he there only in spirit because his brother *willed* him to 
> be
> there?

Maybe it was the dream-travel tech equivalent of an aquastor?

- Gerry Quinn




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