Maximilian Wilson wrote: >On 4/8/06, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote: > > >>Not necessarily pools. If amorphia is construction material, it may >>have been stored away, possibly improperly disposed of, or was in a >>reservoir which the Jenoine expected that they could use but did not >>expect the mice to open up and spill all over the landscape. >> >> > >I don't feel that this is consistent with the Jenoine's attempt to >siphon off amorphia from the Lesser Sea in /Issola/. If >(non-world-consuming) amorphia is old hat to the Jenoine, why don't >they just make their own? > >-Max Wilson > > Just because they know how to use a tool doesn't mean they know how to create that tool - at least not cheaply. Maybe it was left over from an earlier Brust novel and they discovered it and used it for their experiments.