Wind On Freehold

"Outpost of Empire."

"The fog rolled swiftly toward Domkirk; and none in the city noticed that there was no wind to drive it." (p. 4)

Mistress Randa, an outbacker woman with a Skill, controls insects that repeatedly gather dew, then exude fog-generating droplets. For once, in an Anderson work, it is the absence of a wind that is significant although no one in Domkirk notices.

Gathering to be evacuated, the citizens:

"...shuddered in the pre-dawn wind." (p. 25)

When the evacuation has been completed:

"...Domkirk stood empty of everything save the wind." (ibid.)

After three references to wind, I look out for more and find that, from Domkirk, Ridenour is taken to a place where treetops stretch to the horizon:

"...moving and murmuring in the breeze." (p. 27)

Probably these references to the wind and a breeze are not very significant. However, in general, the wind does play an active role in Poul Anderson's texts which is why I have become hyper-sensitive to it.