(urth) Pike's ghost

[Roy C. Lackey]

Mucor was naked on the night of Pike's ghost, just as she had been naked the
first time Silk saw her in the flesh the night before at Blood's villa. When
he was questioning Oreb about her, he described her as a "girl" or "thin
young woman". She was about fifteen; Silk was twenty-three.

At Mucor's Rock, when Horn asked her to find Silk for him, she was not
naked. She had been on Blue for twenty years, more than half her life. She
was the same age as Horn, and he had not recognized her until he looked into
her eyes.

Taken together, these elements strongly suggest that the Mucor Silk saw in
his manse on the night of Pike's ghost looked little like the 35-year-old
Mucor Horn saw on Mucor's Rock. It's doubtful that young Silk would even
have recognized the older woman.

-Roy