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<div class=Section1><pre>Y’know, I think I got the tree in the pit from all the other tree-references throughout the books. Also because the Inhumi seem to be associated with parasitic vines—Incanto’s staff is a vine that has a kind of face on the top, and appears to unsettle people, as if it is more than just a stick of wood. I put this together with the “bristly hand” (not sure of the description from the book) that Horn feels, and got a tree. Isn’t there also a “maw” of some kind? I remember getting an image of a typical fairy-story anthropomorphic tree with some kind of hollow serving as a mouth. “Spider” and “man with a long nose” made me think of various impressions a dying man might get from a mobile, anthropomorphic tree.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>…plus, there’s the ruined greenhouse-dome Horn and Seawrack find. Has intelligent life on Green evolved from plants? Are the Neighbors tree-people, and know that they must retain their vigor through hybridization? As primitive as the Inhumi are without benefit of human blood—like leeches or fish—did they begin as parasitic vines? <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre><i><o:p> </o:p></i></pre><pre><i>Jordon Flato wrote:<o:p></o:p></i></pre>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>You
know, I just read this part, and I can't find any reference to a Tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>being
in there with him, much less anything close to resembling a tree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>eating
his corpse. A Neighbor comes in (he thinks it a spider or<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>something).
As a matter of fact, I just reread that, and there is not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>mention
or even hint of a tree(s) being in the pit with Horn, so I don't<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>know
where this comes from. Can you cite anything?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I
do see the Neigbors associated with Trees on some level, but not as<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>projections.
The Neighbors as for permission to visit this world, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>indicate
they have left this world to go to another. How is that connected<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>to
the Trees? The trees obviously don't leave (no pun intended). Are
the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>trees
Spirit Antennae or something which allow the Neighbors to transmit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>themselves
back to Blue?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I
don't see nearly as direct a connection between the trees and the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Neighbors
as some seem to, although I will admit there is some possible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>connection,
no doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>But
there is no tree in the pit. Not from textual references anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>RE:
Hybridization. YES! This is the one thing which is making me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>seriously
consider that a neighbor did something siginficant in this respect<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>to
Horn in the pit. It fits thematically.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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