Ythrians And The Elements II

The People Of The Wind, XV.

See:

Ythrians And The Elements
Ythrians And The Weather
Ythrians And The Weather II

Ythrians, intelligent, winged, feathered, unclothed, hunting carnivores can fly through a storm, then kill and eat live prey, a physical oneness with nature impossible to human beings.

An Ythrian's first response to bereavement is to seek solitude. When Eyath learns that Vodan has died in space, she flies alone through a storm, an extended pathetic fallacy.

It is night. Wind rises. Clouds break. Morgana flees between them. Surf threshes. Trees roar. Human beings are fully clothed. Tabitha Falkayn draws her cloak tight.

Later but still at night, wind drops, clouds reform and rain falls, "...slow as tears." (p. 606) Another explicit pathetic fallacy.

At dawn, the rain has stopped, Laura rises blindingly, the sky is blue, leaves and blades are jeweled:  violence passed; world cleansed.