lazarus wrote: >My recollection is that House Jhereg is the only House with no genetic >input. They were just the dregs and scavengers left over after all >the other houses formed, and sarcastically gave themselves a critter >name as well. > > I know. But, Aliera says that the Jhereg by now has its own characteristic genome, which it, um, scavenged from its first members. All of their genes have melded by now, giving the House a recognizable genetic characteristic. Don't know how this ties into a jhereg being particularly attuned to a Jhereg . . .