 Why are Melia and Xeon considered noble by the end of the story?
And indeed it was but a moment before Melia slipped through the high grass to stand at his side. Everything has evaporated in Maternite. A man my age does not hurry in the heat of the midday sun—maddugs nenglishmin go out in the midday sun, as the ancients say, although I often wonder why—but Xeon and Melia ran all the way down to the city. They were created so long ago, indeed, that the ignorant believe them to have been constructed by the gods themselves. Xeon and Melia stopped as I mounted the steps, but I smiled and motioned them in.
 Because they were willing to continue learning about this ill-understood act
 Because they discovered the truth about reproduction and brought it to the society  Because they did not tell others in the society what happened in detail, protecting them from the truth  Because they were willing to continue learning about this ill-understood act  Because they want to increase the efforts towards learning more about these historical acts