When Queen Vindilis has forcefully addressed her Sister Queen Fennalis:
"There was a silence..." (p. 120)
A silence underlines the importance of what has been said and gives both women time to think but, of course, there is more. The sentence continues:
"..., apart from a whoo-oo of spring-time wind under the eaves." (ibid.)
The silence is an absence of speech but not of thought or of the background wind. Indeed, the latter is almost omnipresent. The chapter had begun with the advent of spring which included:
"Sunbeams and cloud shadows pursued each other, with rainsqualls and rainbows, till the wind lay down to rest, and whiteness brooded huge in the blue." (p. 116)
The almost personified wind lying down to rest expresses peace. When appropriate, the Andersons' wind roar or shriek but not now. This paragraph is one of their most beautiful descriptions of any season not only in Ys but:
"...across the length of Armorica." (ibid.)
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