What's So Great About Ushas?

Roy C. Lackey · 18 Jun 2008, 17:55 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:55:30 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
Message-ID: <001001c8d16c$82990a40$33d04a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

Andrew wrote:
>Jonas confirms Sev's belief that Abaia et al are as big as
>mountains, not just the size of big ships. (Somewhere in Claw.)

Chapter VIII. "You were correct when you said Erebus and Abaia are as great
as mountains, and I admit that I was surprised you knew it. Most people lack
the imagination to conceive of anything so large, and think them no bigger
than houses or ships. Their actual size is so great that while they remain
on this world they can never leave the water--their own weight would crush
them."

-Roy

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