Weather

Starfarers, 30.

When Yu comes to tell Sundaram about the threat to reality, there is appropriate weather: rain, wind, lightning and thunder. When she enters and closes the door, a gust tries to seize it. When it has become clear that she has something terrible to relate, wind hoots. When he holds her hand, it is colder than that external weather. When he protests that living beings, less than dust motes, cannot menace creation, lightning blazes, darkness returns and thunder sounds like monstrous wheels. (Thor?) When she has explained more and he sits mute, rain slashes and wind keens.

This weather is the continual backdrop to the discussion summarized in the two previous posts. My summary is a mixture of paraphrase and quotation. Of course I urge blog readers to read or reread Poul Anderson's text.