Very evocative. I can see young Lennier so attached to his heritage, and confused about being descended from a preliterate people.
I can't help but wonder, though, what this dig is about - what the archeologists are trying to prove. If the archeologists are Worker (which makes sense, there's no separate Academic Caste), what do they make of a time before castes and before clans? Is the evidence unambiguous, or do they want to interpret it that way? It makes sense that Lennier would in some ways long for such a history, because he really does bridge all the castes in his life.
(Now I'm craving fic about why Lennier left out the Workers from his first explanation of the castes. There's got to be a story in that.)
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Date: 2005-03-29 05:03 pm (UTC)I can't help but wonder, though, what this dig is about - what the archeologists are trying to prove. If the archeologists are Worker (which makes sense, there's no separate Academic Caste), what do they make of a time before castes and before clans? Is the evidence unambiguous, or do they want to interpret it that way? It makes sense that Lennier would in some ways long for such a history, because he really does bridge all the castes in his life.
(Now I'm craving fic about why Lennier left out the Workers from his first explanation of the castes. There's got to be a story in that.)