Soft Lothark
>!How did the Carryx not know about the Soft Lothark's ability to communicate through the oils on their skin? I'm re-reading the first book right now and it goes into a lot of detail about what the half-mind knew about humans before they'd even set foot on Anjin - how could they know this much about humans and miss something relatively obvious about the Soft Lothark for thousands of years. Surely they must have noticed something. Seems like a plot hole to me.!<
>>!The half-mind gathered what it had instead of knowledge. The primary species communicated with sound and a narrow spectrum of light. Some chemoreception, but rarely at a conscious level. No protein messaging, no blood sharing. No fusion, either of full bodies or child organisms. No qliph. Many technological connections made through frequency and amplitude modulated electromagnetic waves, although there were also similar modulations along mineral channels laid between structures. Some of these converted to pressure waves in air, some into patterns of light on mechanisms that the species built for the purpose. All of it was deep and rich with pattern, language, meaning.!<