Part Five
LEVIDOPT

The female lays the eggs, the male protects them; yet, like the jhereg (and hence the common etymology of the names, see Appendix B, this volume), both sexes develop venom, as well as wings. No suitable explanation for this peculiarity has been postulated. . . .

     The most important and most often overlooked aspect of the levidopt is that, in a sense recapitulating the entire development of the Jhegaala, it, too, is in a constant state of change.

—Oscaani: Fauna of the Middle South: A Brief Survey,
Volume 6, Chapter 19