Things I haven't had to think about until right this minute

[ksmith]

1) Do Haarin keep pets? If yes, do they take them aboard ships?
2) Haarin criminal investigative procedure--yes or no?

I have heard people complain that important cultural aspects/plot points in series sometimes turn up only as needed, with no build-up in previous books. Well, Tricky-Woo, if you could have foreseen the need to answer those two questions about the time of, say, LAW, you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din, and you can finish writing this book.

*mutter*

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

They would require some sort of evaluation procedure that would cast out a bornsect, making them Haarin. But it would be a public evaluation, in the idomeni fashion, with declarations and so forth. Very different from a cards-close-to-the-vest human-type criminal investigation, which Haarin are in the process of learning, by the way.

And they will have pets.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

That's sorta what I figured bornsect would do. I have no idea (yet) what Haarin do, but that's ok, they're not my story :). Just from the perspective of how humans deal with each other, Haarin that didn't have criminals and a way to deal with them would hit a lot of humans' "angel" buttons. Haarin don't seem to do that.

Now a bornsect with a pet... *that* would be weird.