I refuse to call it art, but AI-generated images can be a good source of inspiration sometimes. This is the closest I've come to getting an AI image generator to depict the yinrih. There are some obvious discrepancies beyond the usual AI horror show. The eyes aren't correct, they should be pitch black, and the tail is neither long enough nor is it prehensile.

But this image has helped me nail down what the Commonthroat verb <PN> /long high weakening whine/ means. I glossed it as “to squat” or “to sit like a dog”, but the yinrih are plantigrade, so their feet are shorter and their tibia and fibula (or analogous bones) are longer compared to canids.

In other news, I made some tiny tweaks to the second part of First Contact. The usual abbreviation of “please” in Morse is PSE not PLS, and the KX3 is not the kind of radio one would normally use to do satellite communication.