[It is difficult, they’re discovering, to describe in exact terms what they mean. They had looked at her, and they had seen. They had looked at her, and she was the diametric opposition to the jackal, slender and coal-black and heralding death. She was life, absolute, as far as they were concerned.]
[It leaves them uncertain how best to translate this, when their descriptors are all abstract.]
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[She kept track of cats, not dogs, so while she met many, many kitties she named Shiro, it's hard to say about their doggy counterparts.
But the white dog roaming about the island is a creature she remembers-how can Drifter tell they're a god? Looked like one-how?]
Does she have a book or horns? Is that how you can tell?
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[It is difficult, they’re discovering, to describe in exact terms what they mean. They had looked at her, and they had seen. They had looked at her, and she was the diametric opposition to the jackal, slender and coal-black and heralding death. She was life, absolute, as far as they were concerned.]
[It leaves them uncertain how best to translate this, when their descriptors are all abstract.]