# Incus the embryo *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Apr 2008* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *23 Apr 2008, 06:35* Recently looking back through *Calde of the Long Sun*, I noticed a strong suggestion that Patera Incus is, like Silk and Mucor, the adult outcome of one of those very special embryos. Look at Chapter 6, three or four pages in: Incus describes his parents, their desire for a pious child, his birth long after the other four children in the family... I think Wolfe is hinting fairly openly here. --Nick Gevers. ---