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

[naomikritzer]

I had a really great idea as I was working on Freedom's Sisters. If I'd thought of it before, I totally would have put in some hints. As it stands, I have to hope my clever readers find some hints and assume I put them in there on purpose.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have in the past known the incredible rush that comes when a plot point hits you and you realize that somehow your backbrain--which possesses psychic abilities--foresaw your need for set-up and dropped totally innocuous items a book or two earlier THAT MAKE IT ALL WORK.

Backbrain must have had the day off on the day it needed to think of pets and criminal investigations.

I think I can pull it off. I pretty much have to at this point. But some set-up would have been nice...

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

Pets are sufficiently weird that some Haarin would probably keep 'em. And well yes they have criminal investigative procedures, or else they don't have any way of being a society. Hard to do without 'em unless they're some kind of band-level organization :o. And they're not that. (ok, that's not fully right, but you've already set 'em up as being human enough that we can deal with them, and a society that doesn't have criminals is different enough that we might not see them as a society)

[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.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Because of the issue of needing to feed them, would they lean toward "cleaner" pets, such as reptiles?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

That's a point.

I think only the more radical Haarin element would keep pets. Those who occasionally eat in public, or smoke.

[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.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Those who occasionally eat in public, or smoke.

The idea of a Haarin smoking always boggles the imagination...