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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jwilson@clueland.com
href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">Jeff Wilson</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 01, 2012 1:54 PM</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> "I pulled down the homespuns that had covered him and found he was
naked <BR>> beneath them. His right side was swollen, the lump the size of a
child's <BR>> head. I smoothed it away, thrilling to the power that surged
out of <BR>> Urth, through my legs and out my fingers."<BR><BR>> It seems
he has the gift to draw from different sources of energy to do <BR>> his
healing, at least. But if the Claw-White Fountain connection <BR>> transcends
time, it ought to work at any time of the day. If it can be <BR>> blocked by
the limb of Urth, why does it work in the mines on the ape?</DIV>
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<DIV>Do we really know he is drawing on a power from Urth? That is how he
interprets it, but on what evidence? He doesn’t really feel the source, or
he would not first have checked the Claw.</DIV>
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<DIV>That said, he drained the batteries of the Ship at one point, so clearly he
could draw power from there. But the power he has is connected with an
ability to reverse the flow of time. This is plausible for a white hole,
and perhaps also for a Yesodi ship.</DIV>
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<DIV>I would speculate that he draws only on such sources, and the White
Fountain is not truly blocked by Urth. But perhaps there are other
sources. The Cumaean, for example, draws on the power of an ancient
creature on the planet of a distant star to accomplish her own temporal
delvings.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>