Trevelyan, Ilaloa And Nicki

The Peregrine, CHAPTER XI.

"[Trevelyan] noticed that weeping didn't disfigure [Ilaloa] as it does a human." (p. 99)

"Looking on the warmth of [Trevelyan's] face, Nicki wondered how much of it was acting." (ibid.)

Only eight sentences of continuous dialogue between Trevelyan, Ilaloa and Nicki separate these two quoted sentences. Thus, there is a very abrupt change of point of view.

It is Ilaloa that is acting, telling an elaborate lie to divert the Peregrine into a region of space where her people will capture it.

Ilaloa, neurosenitive, senses thoughts and Trevelyan understands enough to describe what they are like:

a main thread;
all sorts of sidelines and overtones;
always changing.

Each of us knows his or own thoughts and, in zazen, we sit with them but do not sense anyone else's.