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- From: roise@u.stein.u.washington.edu (Linda Roise)
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- Subject: Re: wher
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:31:55
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- In-reply-to: txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu's message of Tue, 19 Jan 1993 22:45:43 GMT
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- I just came across, in _Dragondrums_, p. 172:
-
- Sharra had taught her fire lizards to hunt when they were in the
- wild, but she had also managed to train them to bring their catch
- to her. They returned that fourth evening with the
- strangest-looking creature Piemur had ever seen. Sharra identified
- it as a whersport. It was far too small to be like the watchwhers
- that Piemur knew as nocturnal hold guardians in the north, but it
- was bigger than fire lizards, which it also somewhat resembled.
- Fortunately, it was almost dead when the delighted Meer and Talla
- deposited it on the ground by Sharra's feet. She dispatched it
- with a deft prick of her knife and, grinning at Piemur for his
- horrified expression, proceeded to disembowel it, throwing the
- offal far out into the black waters, which ruffled briefly as the
- snakes took the offering.
- "May look a sight, but roasted in its skin, a whersport is
- very good eating. So, we'll stuff it with a bit of white tuber and
- some grass shoots, and we'll have a meal fit for a Lord Holder."
- When she saw Piemur's dubious expression as she completed her
- arrangements, she laughed.
- "There're a lot of strange beasties in this part of the south.
- As if all the animals you have up north got mixed up somehow. A
- whersport isn't a fire lizard, and it isn't a wher. For one thing
- it's a daytime beast, and whers are nocturnal; sun blinds them.
- Then there's far more varieties of snake here than in the north.
- Or so I'm told. . . .
-
- For those who have editions other than the Bantam paperback (11th
- printing, 1986), this section is toward the end of chapter 10.
-
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