The Sensations Of Earth

The Long Way Home, CHAPTER FIVE.

Saris Hronna, a naked but fur-covered alien, is a hunter but hunted on Earth. We find four references to wind. First, a wet wind is:

"...blowing off the canal with a thousand odors of strangeness." (p. 49)

Secondly:

"...the very wind blew with another voice." (ibid.)

The wind often comments and here has a "voice." It tells Saris that he is not at home.

He sees:

high, clear stars;

a pulsing, glowing city on the horizon;

darkness but enough grey light for his vision;

a straight canal;

wind-rustling grain;

a darkened hut.

He hears:

the wind;

a honking bird;

a booming airship.

He smells:

cool dank air;

green growth;

warm wildlife.

He senses:

what other beings are sensing.

He feels:

the weeds and mud in which he lies;

fear;

sorrow for the loss of his folk and kin;

aloneness and loneliness.

Our senses are saturated.