# Babbie and Horn *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Aug 2000* > 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 *01 Aug 2000, 05:41* Ian Smith: > "I found him in he forest, sitting in the dark under the trees. I could not see him, it was too dark to see anything. But I knelt beside him, and lay my head upon his knee, and he comforted me." (OBW p.378)> > At first I thought this was another Neighbor encounter, but in IGJ Horn says he hasn't encountered them since they moved him to a new body. It could > also be a particularly obtuse dream sequence, I suppose. Any ideas? And then alga: It is Babbie speaking here. It is probably Horn's fever-dream, but maybe not. Babbie is going to turn up again in the third volume (thank goodness, I missed him) and we'll know more. And now me: When I read OBW, I was under the impression that the Horn / Babbie transference was a trick the Neighbors pulled to allow Horn to escape the inhumi; the latter have no interest in a hus, and would become confused. Of course, if the Neighbors are responsible, they are acting remotely, so Horn isn't really "encountering" them. ---