Reswan is a native Athshean and one of Selver’s fellow leaders during the attack on Centralville. Reswan is a pragmatic person and ensures that the humans’ radios are destroyed after the attack so that they can’t communicate with their fellow colonists, as he’s particularly worried about aerial attacks. Reswan can’t speak much English and communicates with the humans using words he picked up from them. He eventually lets the human prisoners keep a radio dropped by parachute after confirming that it isn’t a weapon.
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Chapter Six
...machine, and it dropped a parachute with something in it. An Athshean ex-slave and leader, Reswan, was worried about attacks from the yumens’ ships.
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...needs to talk with the yumens in the compound. They head to the creechie-pen, where Reswan asks for Colonel Dongh in broken English. Gosse comes out instead, saying that Dongh is...
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...next day, the captive yumens in the creechie-pen ask to speak to Selver. Along with Reswan and a few others, Selver meets Gosse, Dongh, and three other yumens under a tree—Selver’s...
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