Sub-Index to Seeds of Disaster: Cast=Bears

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• ambient danger
  • mutants could stir up violence
• appearance
  • arms=husky
  • arms=stubby
  • ears=flared and closed w/rhythm
  • ears=flaring
  • ears=flop, furry and slow
  • ears=fuzzy shadows
  • ears=hear llevar transmission directly
  • ears=large, intricate, furry
  • extra senses and talents
  • eyelids=droopy
  • eyes=bulged under drooping lids
  • eyes=bulging
  • eyes=flaring
  • eyes=large, bulging, lids droopy
  • eyes=protruding
  • eyes=see in the dark
  • face=chubby
  • hair=short
  • in womb
    • arms=thick
    • close to term, no longer appeared human
    • ears=large, intricate, fur-covered
    • legs=thick
    • nose=nostrils flared to nudge cheeks
    • weight near-term=7 kg
  • man-sized
  • mass=Cohort #5 as much as Foxfire
  • mouths=toothy grins
  • mouths=toothy, gaping
  • neck=hulking
  • see also individual Bears
  • shoulders=hulking
  • smell=oddly like the trees, oddly like grass
  • smile=absent-minded
  • sounds=shrills and titters, totally wordless
• as storage-device operators
• Ausländer must not know of the Bears' special skills

  

• Bear
  • his parents
  • in scene
    • all &2 &3 &4
    • mentioned &2 &3 &4
  • mural of his life
    • Challenge of The Lord
    • in all prayer rooms
    • The Gift
    • The Miracle in the Womb
      • Foxfire glimpses it in the pre-natal exam room
    • The Miracle of Birth
    • The Miracle of Life
• behavior
  • speech
    • among themselves
    • normal ~ awkward for them
    • seems totally wordless to 13'Sao-La
    • typically limited to forms of "Yes" and "No" and combos of those words
• bracelet-of-grace
  • Ammaerln House-row likened to ~
  • of dead Bears on display in ante-chamber of Tabernacle
  • tinkled merrily

  

• called "transmutes"
• called a "Challenge of the Lord"
• can't be born w/o surrogates
• Cohorts
  • #2
    • Glacier
      • a big girl
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
      • shows as much promise in adapting to Life as Grizzly
    • Grizzly
      • drills a hole w/Spaceª
      • eyelids flaring as he focused his mind
      • eyelids=heavy
      • face crinkled with puzzlement
      • face=round
      • hands=big
      • in scene
        • all &2 &3 &4 &5
        • Character
        • character
        • mentioned &2 &3
      • massed nearly 3xFoxfire's 36kg
      • shoulders rising to touch his ears
  • #3
    • Honey
      • in scene
        • all
        • mentioned
    • Katmai
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Sun
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
  • #4
    • all at Large Square Dance
    • Arctodus
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • being escorted to Large Square Dance
    • Crowtheri
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Elemensis
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Etruscus
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Microta
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Spelaus
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • two-thirds the size of Grizzly
    • Ursavus
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Wolong
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
  • #5
    • 4 girls, 4 boys
    • age=2.5 Niner
    • age=in school a couple of years
    • contains 8 Bears
    • Kamchatka
      • Female
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Kermode
      • experimenting with Spaceª
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Melursus
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
    • Simus
      • in scene
        • all
        • character
  • #8
    • already left their cuddly infancy behind
  • #9
    • Ailurus
      • cohort defined
      • in scene in womb
    • their mothers waiting for exams
  • 56 altogether in the clinic
  • escorted around town
  • some more working for the project

  

• die very early

  

• Foxfire calls them "gentle people"

  

• in scene
  • all
  • mentioned

  

• Large Square Dance
  • every one via obscure path
  • use hidden clearing
• live longer than Bear's 8 years

  

• mentioned
• minimized interaction w/public
• must be protected

  

• Neighborhood Health Concern
  • much of it committed to caring for them
  • school there
  • spend their days there
  • training right down the hall from normal school
• no one outside The Tangent should see the Bears at work

  

• Phoebe threatens them indirectly
• pre- and post-natal regimen for each cohort is specific
• private qi-che on the books as a freighter

  

• reason Foxfire cannot Join Meyer for Life
• reminding everyone of true bear cubs

  

• Spaceª
  • anomaly named
  • called "spatial lesion"
  • described in Bear's mural
  • described
    • sour-milk smell
  • first time used to drill hole
  • hole drilled by Grizzly
  • working with
    • described
• surrogate mothers

  

• they need a lot of love and care
• training

  

• Weir sees them as large, bulky men
• will be out in the woods with Foxfire et alia