 What most attracts Halden to Meredith?
In repose, Taphetta the Ribboneer resembled a fancy giant bow on a package. Actually, the four of us here, though it's accidental, very nearly represent the biological spectrum of human development. Emmer just misses being able to breed with my kind, but there's a fair chance that I'd be fertile with Meredith and a similar though lesser chance that her fertility may extend to Kelburn." "And whereas there are humans who are relatively near and not fertile, they can always mate with those they were adjacent to two hundred thousand years ago !" Firmon leered at Meredith and, when she failed to smile, added plaintively, "I did try to change it, but he still complains." "Tell me what you know about it," said Halden.
 Her long, slender legs and biologically superior appearance
 Her bold and outspoken communication among 'higher-level' species  Her shared desire to be associated with a 'higher-level' species  Her long, slender legs and biologically superior appearance  Her blatant disregard for rules that govern intermixing among species