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Memory 4 -- Meeting his teacher
Mar. 26th, 2011 10:50 pmFinally Akin gets a memory from when he is older than 2!
( What happened. )
What Akin got from it:
-- A lot more about Oankali. They're spacefaring, and at some point had humans on their ship, possibly against their will (worrying, but he wasn't bothered by it in their memory). They're very plastic -- Akin had no problem accepting the Akjai ooloi as 'Oankali too'.
-- The ship is alive and Oankali communicate with it and between themselves via neural links. He remembers Nikanj teaching him that way as well.
-- --100 Pillar fear. When you live in something, knowing the rock around you is alive is less worrying. Akin is still not dumb enough to try to talk to the Pillar/the Old Man.
-- He was interested in learning vet science, so he was studying with an ooloi teacher.
-- A little bit more about how his 'taste' works.
-- While canon seems to indicate Akin can't link with a non-Oankali*, he'll have gained leaps and bounds in transmitting/receiving information to Jace or another telepath. So, he'll probably be a lot more likely to transmit feelings or images or whatever if he's speaking mind-to-mind with Jace.
* My inference. Nikanj can, but the books also imply that it's one of those things ooloi can do that males, females and children can't. Later, Akin notes that he can't mess with Tate's nervous system to make his healing her feel good to her, so he was just going to knock her out to avoid the pain signals.
( What happened. )
What Akin got from it:
-- A lot more about Oankali. They're spacefaring, and at some point had humans on their ship, possibly against their will (worrying, but he wasn't bothered by it in their memory). They're very plastic -- Akin had no problem accepting the Akjai ooloi as 'Oankali too'.
-- The ship is alive and Oankali communicate with it and between themselves via neural links. He remembers Nikanj teaching him that way as well.
-- --100 Pillar fear. When you live in something, knowing the rock around you is alive is less worrying. Akin is still not dumb enough to try to talk to the Pillar/the Old Man.
-- He was interested in learning vet science, so he was studying with an ooloi teacher.
-- A little bit more about how his 'taste' works.
-- While canon seems to indicate Akin can't link with a non-Oankali*, he'll have gained leaps and bounds in transmitting/receiving information to Jace or another telepath. So, he'll probably be a lot more likely to transmit feelings or images or whatever if he's speaking mind-to-mind with Jace.
* My inference. Nikanj can, but the books also imply that it's one of those things ooloi can do that males, females and children can't. Later, Akin notes that he can't mess with Tate's nervous system to make his healing her feel good to her, so he was just going to knock her out to avoid the pain signals.
