The Claw

Gerry Quinn · 01 Jan 2012, 16:55 · from 2012-January.txt.gz

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From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 16:55:00 -0000
Subject: (urth) The Claw
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From: Jeff Wilson 
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 1:54 PM

> "I pulled down the homespuns that had covered him and found he was naked 
> beneath them. His right side was swollen, the lump the size of a child's 
> head. I smoothed it away, thrilling to the power that surged out of 
> Urth, through my legs and out my fingers."

> It seems he has the gift to draw from different sources of energy to do 
> his healing, at least. But if the Claw-White Fountain connection 
> transcends time, it ought to work at any time of the day. If it can be 
> blocked by the limb of Urth, why does it work in the mines on the ape?

Do we really know he is drawing on a power from Urth?  That is how he interprets it, but on what evidence?  He doesn?t really feel the source, or he would not first have checked the Claw.

That said, he drained the batteries of the Ship at one point, so clearly he could draw power from there.  But the power he has is connected with an ability to reverse the flow of time.  This is plausible for a white hole, and perhaps also for a Yesodi ship.

I would speculate that he draws only on such sources, and the White Fountain is not truly blocked by Urth.  But perhaps there are other sources.  The Cumaean, for example, draws on the power of an ancient creature on the planet of a distant star to accomplish her own temporal delvings.

- Gerry Quinn
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