The Humanizing Of Arinnian

The People Of The Wind, XIII.

Daniel Holm thinks:

"Chris has finally met a woman who's not just a sex machine or a she-Ythrian to him." (p. 587)

That was what I called Arinnian's treble standard: placing bird women on a pedestal where they were expected to measure up to an impossible Ythrian standard while at the same time treating women not in choths with contempt.

Chris/Arinnian jokes with Eyath in Anglic:

"'We Important  Executives can't stall around.'" (p. 590)

He explains that, for long distance travel, his chothmates must overcome their claustrophobia and learn to travel in enclosed aircraft whereas earlier he had thought:

"To reach Lythran's aerie before dark, he must start soon. Of course, a car would cover the distance in less than an hour; but who wanted to fly caged in metal and plastic?" (I, p. 439)

In fact, Arinnian and Eyath travel to visit Tabitha Falkakyn on the Oronesian island of St. Li in a flitter that is "'...spaceable...,'" (p. 591) which will be important later. Every plot point that will matter later must be introduced earlier like rogue planets in Ensign Flandry and the idea of capturing the enemy's codes in The Rebel Worlds. Tabitha's house guest is a prisoner of war, used to flying small spacecraft...