As fun was surrendered in favour of work, various holographic capture-blocks were installed and tested. As those sky-clear cubes were tested, fragmentary images appeared within them: partial view of the fishing floats which hung from the dome of skystone overhead, and of the ornamental senatorial chairs, richly carved with the nymphs and serpents of the sea, and beasts less couth, like the merdog and the yandolini. [NoP Ch4]
'Oh, yes,' said Grindle-Joyce. 'The living diving suits. What are they, exactly?'
'They're a type of commensual organism,' said Heineman. 'In nature, they live in association with the yandolini. That's a creature from the Sea of Ice.'
'Yes?' said Grindle-Joyce. 'Down where the Mer live?' [EoH Ch5] OOL,EoH,NoP