Starfall on Hermes seems like a real place, especially since this brief passage reinforces what we have already read about David Falkayn's home planet in Mirkheim:
Williams Field
Daybreak Bay
the Runeberg mansion
Pilgrim Hill
the Palomino River
fragrant daleflower and roses
a flying, trilling tilirra
blinking glowflies
Riverside Common
millionleaf trees
rainroof trees
spires
domes
towers
Antares above the Auroral Ocean
As with two other colonized terrestroid planets, Aeneas and Avalon, we learn the names of local flora and fauna and accept that a population lives there. (The Avalonian ecology combines local organisms with those imported from Ythri and Terra.)
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That's a realistic touch. It's quite possible in large parts of New Zealand, for example, to stand in a field or wood and not see more than one or two local species -- the grass, the birds, any animals you see, the trees are all mostly European and Asian.
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