<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Sorry just saw this post - I was referring to the high spot in Return to the Whorl where the stiff bird legged fellow approaches Horn on Green as a possible Sev, not to the end of UotNS (in my mind, Rttw is later in the timeline)<br><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>"a new figure, tall and tightly wrapped in a colorless cloak, approached us with stiff, bird-like strides."<br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family:
HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:52 AM, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com <jwilson@clueland.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On 2/14/2014 7:48 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:<br clear="none">> Water receded greatly over time, I assume. The whole planet had recently flooded.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">URTH, Chapter LI:<br clear="none">> We walked the beach together in the direction from which he had come.<br clear="none">> The hills, which had been barren mud when I had left, were covered<br clear="none">> with soft, green grass. Wildflowers bloomed there, and there were<br clear="none">> young trees.<br clear="none"> > I tried to estimate the time I had been gone, and to<br clear="none">> count the years I had lived among the autochthons in their stone<br
clear="none">> town; and though I could not be sure of either figure, it seemed to<br clear="none">> me they must have been much the same. I marveled then to think of the<br clear="none">> green man, and how he had come for me in the jungles of the north at<br clear="none">> the very moment I required him. We both had walked the Corridors of<br clear="none">> Time, yet he had been a master while I was only an apprentice.<br clear="none"> > I asked my priest when it had been that the Sleeper had devoured the<br clear="none">> lands. He was deeply tanned; even so, I saw the blood drain from his<br clear="none">> face. "Long ago," he said. "Before men came to Ushas."<br clear="none"> > "Then how do men know of it?"<br clear="none"> > "The god Odilo taught us. Are you angry?"<br clear="none"> > Odilo had overheard my conversation with Eata, then. I had supposed<br clear="none"> > him sleeping. "No," I said. "I only wish
to hear what you know of it.<br clear="none"> > Was it you who came to Ushas?"<br clear="none"> > He shook his head. "My father's father and my mother's mother. They<br clear="none"> > fell from the sky, scattered like seeds by the hand of the God of<br clear="none"> > all gods."<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This seems like at least two generations, and even short ones would add <br clear="none">up to 30-40 years, giving enough time for trees to grow and be made into <br clear="none">boats and bowers and huts.<div class="yqt6819434133" id="yqtfd09312"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Jeff Wilson - < <a href="" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">jwilson@clueland.com</a> ><br clear="none">A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<br clear="none">< <a href="" shape="rect" target="_blank">http://www.tamut.edu/cil </a></div>><br
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