Human Choth Members

The People Of The Wind.

By the time of the Great Khruath in Chapter XI, Christopher Holm is:

"'...the chief of the West Coronan guard.'" (p. 563)

- but I am not sure that he held that position when he flew to St. Li to open negotiations with Tabitha Falkyan in Chapter III. She observes that:

"'You had to be a delegate, of course. Your area has so few of your kind.'" (p. 466)

So he has come because he is human? Stormgate and other West Coronan choths have so few human members? But, in Chapter I, Chris had told his father:

"'Listen, the choths have been accepting humans for the past hundred years.'" (p. 439)

He estimates that a quarter of Highsky:

"...must be human by now." (III, p. 467)

But Highsky is Tabitha's Oronesian choth so maybe she is contrasting it with West Corona?

However, shortly after the events of The People Of The Wind, Hloch of Stormgate writes:

"...because of its nearness to populous Gray, our choth receives more humans into membership than most. Hence we younglings grew up friendly with many of this race..."

-The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, December 2009), pp. 75-76.

Be that as it may, Tabitha asks why he had wanted to meet her specifically. She is a descendant of David Falkayn which means much in Corona even if not in Oronesia. Also, they are already acquainted and she can introduce him to the right people. There will be both human and Ythrian conferences as a preliminary to full cooperation. Presumably Ythrian conferences will be through the Wyvans. This explains why the initial human contact seems so informal.