(urth) dogs?! was: (Re: Summary of the case for Silk as Typhon's clone)

[Jane Delawney]

On 19/01/11 19:04, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Oh yeah, as far as Mucor goes ... are those dogs she gives birth too
wth? Yes, Mucor does tell Silk she's some time before been implanted 
with some animal embryos and given birth to them. She refers to one of 
them at least as her 'son', in consequence. But these are not dogs; 
still less are they the gods/bufes of the tunnels. Her 'children' are 
the lynxes (medium-big cats) to whom Silk is introduced in the course of 
his first excursion into Blood's mansion. One of them is called Lion; 
others are not individually named but it is clear that there at least 
six of them, male and female.

At the end of BoTLS one of these cats has definitely been killed (Lion 
himself, in the gallery of the Grand Manteion, defending Silk and Auk) 
but the fates of the others (at least five others) are not determined. 
Silk shot a couple of them with Hyacinth's needler, but there's no 
definite evidence that these were fatal shots. Even at the end of RTTW 
there could still be 5 or more lynxes wandering the Whorl, looking for 
mama Mucor.

Not at all sure why anyone has a confusion between these cats and the 
bufes. Just saying.

jd.