Tellihu

Tellihu was the first officer on board the USS Jefferson Randolph Smith.

A Withiki, he was humanoid but possessed a pair of wings, yet his species had evolved past the ability to fly when they developed `large brain-cages on upright carriages'. When Tellihu, Tatyana Trofimov, and T'Vau came across Direidi natives, Thedd and Orvy, he draped a survival blanket over his wings to appear inconspicuous and not scare the natives. However, it made him look like a hunchback.

He enjoyed eating eggs, sometimes in the form of a mushroom omelet, and had eggs for breakfast every morning of Smith's mission, four hundred and sixty-six days. It seemed to Captain Trofimov vaguely like cannibalism.

When the Smith's crew finally reached the Direidi Great Hall's tower, Tellihu lamented on his lack of flight. T'Vau made a remark about Withiki exchanging flight for intelligence. Tellihu said in a friendly voice that he wondered how she would look falling from a great distance.