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Heroine of Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer series. Rejected from her career choice as an opera singer on Fuerte, in an act of recklessness, she applies to the mysterious Heptite Guild, which requires excellent physical condition, and, strangely, perfect musical pitch.
She goes to Ballybran, and is one of the few who flawlessly adapts to the symbiote. It grants her certain abilities, notably an ability to read the planet well, gauge its storms, extended youth and vitality, but it has a downside: Heptite Guild members cannot spend long periods of time away from Ballybran, or the symbiote sickens. Too long away from Ballybran and Crystal Singers die, encased in a crystalline matrix.
Crystal Singers are known for their arrogance, and it's partly a cover: the symbiote erodes memory, a trade-off with the gift of long life. Along with that comes a sort of what seems a callous disregard of other cultures: it's not as rude as it's often interpreted: they simply don't have the capacity to remember anything but their way of doing things.
She goes to Ballybran, and is one of the few who flawlessly adapts to the symbiote. It grants her certain abilities, notably an ability to read the planet well, gauge its storms, extended youth and vitality, but it has a downside: Heptite Guild members cannot spend long periods of time away from Ballybran, or the symbiote sickens. Too long away from Ballybran and Crystal Singers die, encased in a crystalline matrix.
Crystal Singers are known for their arrogance, and it's partly a cover: the symbiote erodes memory, a trade-off with the gift of long life. Along with that comes a sort of what seems a callous disregard of other cultures: it's not as rude as it's often interpreted: they simply don't have the capacity to remember anything but their way of doing things.
