Like a good Neighbor

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 23 Nov 2011, 19:18 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:18:33 -0800
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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James Wynn wrote:

> I have proposed that the inhumi /become/ vines
> by feeding Neighbors. I really doubt they started out that way. The lianna
> inhumi are on Blue for the same reason other inhumi are on Blue and by the
> same method.
> If they don't fly there, then they use some other method.

OK, let's see if I can summarize this correctly. You believe that

(a) the Neighbors are sentient trees native to Blue, who can astrally
project into the form the Narrator meets;
(b) the inhumi are not-natively-sentient reptiles or amphibians native
to Green, who take on the nature of what they feed on (at least in
their offspring);
(c) because they fed on Neighbors, who are trees, the inhumi "take on"
a sort of tree-ishness and become lianas.

Is that correct?

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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