Wind On Avalon

"The Problem of Pain."

"Wind shrieked, hooted, yammered, hit flesh with fists and cold knives." (p. 42)

This wind attacks four Ythrians and two human beings in three ways. It not only shrieks and deafens - it is, after all, loud - but also punches and stabs: an attack as if by enemies. And this attack by the Avalonian environment devastates. Arrach drowns. Enherrian loses a wing. Olga is poisoned. Pete must question his faith. And that shrieking wind presages all this.

In Poul Anderson's works, we find:

"The winds that will be howling at all hours..."

I am typing this post, watching TV news about Greenland and preparing to attend the Zen group while Sheila goes to one of her choirs.