Tapestry threads

Usage examples of wefts.

Behind her, the two Wefts went high, grabbing the overhead and skittering toward the enemy like giant crabs.

Two days later, Paraden began to spread rumors that the Wefts were responsible.

Ostensibly the excuse was that the code should apply only to warmbloods and intelligent (not just sentient) aquatic coldbloods such as the Wefts or Ssli.

Later he was willing to say more, a little more, and introduce her to the other Wefts at the Academy.

Wefts were exquisitely sensitive to certain kinds of radiation, and Wefts who left their homeworlds would never join the mating colony.

But that’s beside the point: what matters is that Fargeon is straight, so far as Wefts can tell.

We had to go in our own shapes, of course - “ He frowned, and Sassinak tried to imagine the effect on Fargeon of all the crew’s Wefts in their own shape, clinging, no doubt, to the bulkheads of the Ssli contact chamber.

And he’s had quite enough to put up with from Wefts already this week.

He’d had to leave his intended course to go looking for her, even if the guidance of Wefts and Ssli made that easier than usual.

She knew that Wefts had no desire for the worlds humans preferred - in fact, the Wefts who chose space travel were sterile, having given up their chance at procreation for an opportunity to travel and adventure.

Sass, with her early training in Discipline, could converse easily with Wefts in their native form, but she knew she was an exception.

Besides, if any of the Wefts on board had identified a subversive, she’d already have been told.

She tongued the biolink into place just under her right back molar, and felt/saw/heard the five who followed her out: two Wefts and two humans.

That was one of the enemy, and whatever it was fired rapidly, if none too accurately, knocking one of the Wefts off the bulkhead in pieces, and smashing a human into a bloody pulp.

Its central ring and one limb were still together, and Med announced smugly that Wefts could regenerate from that.