I'm de-lurking to throw an idea into the pot. What if the love thy neighbour angle means exactly that in OBW? The Neighbours went to Green and it was then that the inhumi changed from being lizard like chameleon beings to sentient ones. Also Krait talks about the history of the inhumi before he dies. I think the Neighbours and the inhumi are intertwined somehow and the Neighbour Horn met agreed that they would help protect humans from the inhumi if Horn agreed on behalf of mankind to let the Neighbours come in peace etc. I'm sure all this is there for a reason. What do you all think? Another thing I noticed was that when Horn put the manacle on Jahlee she started to return to her natural state, where the iron was touching her. Could this be a way to send them back to the way the inhumi were?
Going back into lurk mode.
Charis
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.