About
Throat-side. His brother's household is inside the basin — "there's a house of them, and there's the two little ones." Has had nothing off his brother since the winter that was not a delivery sheet with somebody else's mark on it. At the chapter 11 gathering he takes the head count at the door because he put himself at the door (thirty-one, where there would have been twice that; the seals went on at the twenty-eighth and anyone from the far side came the long way through two clearances or not at all). He asks the first question — when the shallow line's runs come back — and gets Selh's plant answer.
Throat-side. His brother's household is inside the basin — "there's a house of them, and there's the two little ones." Has had nothing off his brother since the winter that was not a delivery sheet with somebody else's mark on it. At the chapter 11 gathering he takes the head count at the door because he put himself at the door (thirty-one, where there would have been twice that; the seals went on at the twenty-eighth and anyone from the far side came the long way through two clearances or not at all). He asks the first question — when the shallow line's runs come back — and gets Selh's plant answer. He wants his brother's household written on something and says so out loud: "Put my brother down… and I'll say it slow enough for you to get it." He asks Selh to put Ruhn's name down and Selh does not. Osk never learns why and nobody in the room does either.
How they speak
Direct, loud, unembarrassed; talks with his hands full of paper; says a number twice when nobody answers it the first time. No cosmology, no omen, no species-exposition — same guard as Selh and Ishk.