"kil'n" ? I haven't read the book yet, but isn't it "kiln", as in the oven to bake clay/bricks? "Kil'n" looks like it belong in the redneck sentence "'Ol Jed's out back hunt'n and kil'n some possums for dinner." Does Brin actually use "kil'n" - is it supposed to sound like "killin"?
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