 What most attracts Meredith to Halden?
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."
 His savageness
 His compassion  His physical appearance  His intellect  His savageness