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<pre wrap="">Marc Aramini wrote:
I don't think a touch is sharing blood. But being consumed in a maw probably is. The island made of giant herbs strikes a feeling of forboding in Horn, remember.
Can you prove a touch is sufficient to share blood? Remember their handshake is a deal that the neighbors can return (ie - share blood with more humans in my interpretation, a bit sinister, at worst being eaten, at best being used as a genetic template)</pre>
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I don't think I can "prove" that touch is sufficient, but we can
safely assume that it does require being eaten (actually "change
blood" is the term He-Pen-Sheep and She-Pick-Berries used). Between
two corporeal beings it is merely what the Lone Ranger and Tonto do
to become "blood brothers". He-Pen-Sheep does it with the
shearbear. But He-Pen-Sheep's son has changed blood with the
Neighbors and it did not involved him dying:<br>
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I indicated the wilderness of sand and scrub through which we had
walked for most of the day. “Are there many Neighbors down there?”
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Without looking up from her sewing, she nodded emphatically. “Many
Neighbor. Many fire.” <br>
Her son displayed both palms. “No kill Neighbor.” <br>
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. <br>
“Neighbor kill you?” I suggested. <br>
He shook his head. “Kill inhumu.” <br>
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Incidentally...those fires the Neighbors light to kill inhumi?
They're burning lianas.<br>
Just my opinion.<br>
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