The conversation between Traat-Admiral and the Conservor is recounted from the Admiral's point of view. We are told how he feels. When the Conservor says that the Slavers perished at least 2,000,000 years ago, we think, "Longer," but the omniscient narrator then interrupts the Conservor to directly inform his audience that the Kzin year is longer than the Terrestrial. Quotation marks are closed, then reopened, in a single paragraph - an incursion into the Admiral's pov.
The following chapter begins with a description, like others that we have read, of a mixed ecology (scroll down) on a colonized terrestroid planet. Trees include:
featherleaf ("...trembling iridescent lavender shapes ten meters tall...," p. 66)
gumblossom
sheenbark
lapisvine
oaks
pines
frangipani
Air is warm and fragrant.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember Traat-Admiral! He too, like the late Chuut-Riit, was an unusually forethoughtful Kzin.
Ad astra! Sean
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