Night On Rendezvous

The Peregrine, CHAPTER III, pp. 18-19.

See Another Moving Moon And The Milky Way.

Moonlight and shadows move;

blossoming vines cover feathery-leaved trees;

there is "grass," not an equivalent;

the six-legged animals do not fear men (this is significant later);

insects glow;

lamp-flowers phosphoresce;

the marble-white humanoid natives are four-limbed (also significant later).

 

The Nomads had lost interest in the natives, the Lorinyans, because the latter have nothing to trade. Peregrine Thorkild Sean reflects that man has always been blind and he is certainly correct in this case. Pure scientific research into the Lorinyans, an intelligent alien species with an irreconcilably antithetical society, would have been the equivalent of military intelligence. Peregrine Joachim Henry has detected a threat to mankind but not yet identified it.