(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[James Wynn]

>
> *From:* James Wynn <mailto:crushtv at gmail.com>
> *> *Additionally, HePenSheep says that the Neighbors fires are
> > burning liannas.
>
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
> Are you sure?  I can't find the reference.

Well, admittedly it is not emphatic. But it was the reading I gleaned 
from the following exchange:

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He nodded solemnly. "Afraid Neighbor-man." When I asked what a 
Neighbor-man was, he laughed and pointed to the ring Seawrack had given 
me. "You Neighbor-man."
"Many Neighbor here," his wife told Seawrack. She paused to moisten the 
sinew with which she sewed, running it through her mouth. "Build many 
fire. Neighbor-man," she pointed to me, "come, talk Neighbor."
I indicated the wilderness of sand and scrub through which we had walked 
for most of the day. "Are there many Neighbors down there?"
Without looking up from her sewing, she nodded emphatically. "Many 
Neighbor. Many fire."
Her son displayed both palms. "No kill Neighbor."
His father laughed again. "He no kill. Change blood Neighbor," to which 
he added what seemed to be several sentences in a tongue that I had 
never heard before.
"Neighbor kill you?" I suggested.
He shook his head. "Kill inhumu."
~OBW, chptr 11
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Additionally, burning seems to be the most widely understood as the 
effective way of killing an inhumi:

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An inhuma was caught last night, and today I was forced to watch as she 
was buried alive. There is no trial for these monsters, and 
understandably so---we burn them in New Viron...
~OBW, chapter 4
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Inhumi are burned alive in Skany...
~OBW, chpt 10
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