Various POV's

 

The Peregrine, CHAPTER XI.

"[Trevelyan] noticed that weeping didn't disfigure [Ilaloa] as it does a human." (p. 99)

That is a good characteristic for a humanoid species.

Only a few lines later:

"Looking on the warmth of [Trevelyan's] face, Nicki wondered how much of it was acting." (ibid.)

POV switch: in the course of a single passage, the narrative point of view has switched from Trevelyan to Nicki. Shouldn't really happen - some of us think.

Over the page but still in the same narrative passage:

"The hypnotism didn't take long. Ilaloa went under fast. Sean winced at the violence of her re-enactment, but the peace that followed was worth it." (p. 100)

Are we being informed not that Trevelyan and/or Nicki noticed Sean's wince but that he felt it and then thought that the peace was worth it? If the latter, then the POV has shifted again, this time to Sean.

Meanwhile, Ilaloa is misleading her companions. She pretends to have heard an alien thought in order to direct them towards a particular region of space where her people wait. 

Before the hypnosis, Ilaloa tells Trevelyan that she has no words to describe how a received thought felt if he has never felt them. Why not? We all directly experience our own thoughts  so, if we suddenly detected someone else's, then we ought to be able to say something about it. Indeed, Trevelyan makes an attempt. He makes four points:

"'It comes all at once...'" (p. 99);

there is "A main thread..." (ibid.);

there are also what he calls sidelines, overtones, hints, whispers and glimpses;

"'...it's always changing.'" (ibid.)

Does that sound like thought? Ilaloa accepts the description. But she then describes a thought of some fictional species other than her own. The Nomads and their Coordinator ally are being misled.