Inhumi (RTTW spoilers)

Adam Stephanides · 14 Feb 2001, 22:10 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Inhumi (RTTW spoilers)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:10:54 +0000
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on 2/13/01 9:26 PM, Alex David Groce at Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu
wrote:

> I'm also beginning to wonder if Silk
> (and the inhumi) thinking the secret is so important is a
> self-delusion and attempt to escape reality much like Silk's denial of
> who he is.
=20
The suspicion had occurred to me that "Horn" was wrong in thinking that the
inhumi thought that their secret could be used to destroy them (since I
couldn't find any place where an inhumu/a actually says so); and that they
were obeying him in Gaon for reasons of their own.  But I rejected this
hypothesis in the end, on the grounds that it's hard to see why "Horn" would
think that the inhumi thought the secret could be used to destroy them,
unless Krait had told him so.

--Adam


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