Minor nitpick:
We don't know what makes sharkras bloom only in spring... You may not know why sharkras bloom in the summer...
Ok, so when do those things actually bloom ? Spring, summer, or both ? Or did the Ebborian world split down the middle while they were talking ?
Ebborian's are said to forget facts easily because of the two-dimensional architecture of their brains. This is usually not such a problem because they are better at re-deriving facts from more-fundamental principles. But they don't know how to derive the blooming time of sharkras, so it's no surprise that Yu'el has a hard time remembering when it happens. /fanwank.
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