"...We are looking into our furthest possible past, which is like looking at a group of people far off across a flat, hot plain. The rising air wavers and changes. Light bends as if it were passing
through invisible lenses. The people seem to dwindle, stretch, vanish, stand clear for a moment, and distort again. We are looking through lenses of time, right at the edge of imagination's eyesight. To give the tribe names distorts them, but it's the best I can do from where we're standing..."
What do we learn about Li that makes her different?
In her mind Li links the picture of the spider's web and the minnow in the pool.
Li continues to work on her idea even when the brittle grass stems won't stay together.
Li watches the spider closely.
Why does Peter Dickinson choose to create a story which does align with all the scientific evidence that exists about these ape-like creatures?