A machine is something we make out of natural materials this was more as if rock or crystal or light had spoken of itself. The two syllables sounded more as if they were played on an instrument than as if they were spoken: and yet they did not sound mechanical either. Blood and lungs and the warm, moist cavity of the mouth are somehow indicated in every Voice. We feel the difference between animal voices (including those of the human animal) and all other noises pretty clearly, I fancy, though it is hard to define. But it was, if you understand me, inorganic. It was perfectly articulate: it was even, I suppose, rather beautiful. "The sound was quite astonishingly unlike a voice. Their voices are also very unlike those of humans: Since they see themselves as The Creator's early offspring, some of them feel a moral obligation to guide the evolution of hnau. They normally consist entirely of psychic energy, but are able to take on physical bodies in the material planes. In their natural forms, they are barely visible as pillars of faint, shifting light. The human characters in the trilogy encounter them on various planets, but the eldila themselves are native to interplanetary and interstellar space (" Deep Heaven").
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