Wind Whitters For Flandry And Desai

See:

Honor And The Wind

Songs And The Wind 

 

Reading that the wind whitters outside when Chunderban Desai has addressed an impassioned plea to Tatiana Thane, I search the blog to check whether I have quoted this passage before. I find that did and I also find another passage in which the wind whitters off the sea while Vice Admiral Enriques is telling Dominic Flandry that his friend, Jan van Zuyl, has been killed in action. 

These winds blow on Aeneas and Starkad, respectively. However, every planet where human beings can live has to have a breathable atmosphere with air movements which will always provide a dramatic backdrop to the dialogues between Poul Anderson's characters.

Desai perseveres against Aenean hostility, like a man walking into a strong wind. Eventually, his efforts will be crowned with success. After a much later conversation with both Tatiana Thane and Ivar Frederiksen:

"As Desai closed the door behind him, he heard the tadmouse begin singing."

-The Day Of Their Return, 21, p. 236.