About
Dr Eli Sarno — junior linguist and xeno-anthropologist on Hale's science team aboard ISV Endurance; gentle, scholarly, quietly adrift on a militarised ship with no soft use for him — until the crew is stranded among the Drowned, the lost ancient-Earth people of the green world, where he reaches them when the translator cannot. He falls in love with Wenna, a widow (her husband lost to a hunting accident) with four children, the boy Edrin among them, and chooses to stay when the Endurance leaves: mustered out in place by Mercer's authority, logged contact officer left in place — not desertion.
Dr Eli Sarno — junior linguist and xeno-anthropologist on Hale's science team aboard ISV Endurance; gentle, scholarly, quietly adrift on a militarised ship with no soft use for him — until the crew is stranded among the Drowned, the lost ancient-Earth people of the green world, where he reaches them when the translator cannot. He falls in love with Wenna, a widow (her husband lost to a hunting accident) with four children, the boy Edrin among them, and chooses to stay when the Endurance leaves: mustered out in place (Book 1 chapter 15 by Mercer's authority, logged contact officer left in place — not desertion. Kit left with him: med-cache, hand-tools, sealed teaching-slates, and a single-charge emergency beacon kept by the door. He wears Drowned madder-red; his ISCA holdall goes back up the ramp.
Family
Wenna – Drowned widow; her husband died hunting; four children including Edrin (~7). Tegen, the elder, is her aunt. Green world, from 2240 (Dead Reckoning, chapter 13–15).
Career
2240: junior linguist / xeno-anthropologist, Endurance science team. Left in place on the green world, Book 1 chapter 15.
Off the page
The Drowned village; a family; the beacon by the door.
Relationships
- julian mercer — Signed him out in place.