(urth) vanished people=Hieros

[Gerry Quinn]

From: James Wynn 

On 11/10/2011 3:44 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
> > But we’d *notice* a change. It’s not just our own weight – arrows 
> > would fly differently (and there are hunters on Green). Objects would 
> > fall differently. If you ever played ball games you couldn’t miss it.

> Sure. But after weeks of weightlessness it might not be the overriding 
> attribute of the place. It's something you have to work out, but you 
> might not discuss it in your diary that you are writing after your body 
> has been destroyed, you've taken over the body of someone in spaceship 
> in orbit, and spent sometime on a third planet. Are there other wildlife 
> on Green other than the Neighbors and Inhumi. I don't recall any mention 
> of them.
Horn landed on Green with a whole bunch of people from Blue.  As I said, somebody would have noticed.
And while Mamelta was a bit out of it during her time with Silk, she was fresh from Urth, at least in her own mind.  If the Whorl had gravity much less than Urth-standard, she’d surely have noticed.
It’s possible to argue around these things, but surely they make an initially unlikely hypothesis recede further in the direction of impossibility?
Creatures:
“The next day, and the next, I made my way back toward the City of the Inhumi. 
It will seem vainglorious when I say that I lived by eating the creatures that 
attacked me, yet it was so. Their flesh was foul, for they were predators and 
carrion eaters; but I lived upon it and upon half-eaten fruits and nuts dropped 
by the great green spiders.”

- Gerry Quinn


J.
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