Tabitha Falkayn, the only human being living permanently on the island of St. Li in the Oronesian archipelago on the colonized planet of Avalon, calls herself an Ythrian because Avalon belongs to the Domain of Ythri.
Because Tabitha's fishery business and home-guard duties will often take her away from St. Li, she warns the prisoner, Philippe Rochefort, that Avalonians do not mass-produce entertainment and that winged Ythrians do not engage in casual conversation so that his options will be limited to swimming, hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, reading her large collection of mystery novels, some from Terra, and playing chess with some of the other residents - but that is a lot and exemplary treatment for a prisoner of war.
Philippe was lucky:
not to be killed in space;
to survive his crash-landing in Oronesia;
to be captured by Tabitha, not killed by Draun;
to be captured/rescued before being killed by spathodonts, lycosauroids, kakkelaks, a surgeon tree (scroll down) or the hell shrub (scroll down).
He will also be lucky to escape but unlucky in other ways...
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
While the things you listed might satisfy you and I, many humans would go crazy if all they could do was swim, fish, hunt, read, or play chess. And what might mysteries written in the Domain or the Empire be like?
Sean
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