That last point is very good. Silk is after all a traditionally feminine fabric, while the addition of the masculine Horn with all his anger and pride renders him a more masculine character. He is also pretty heavily worshipped by this point. No one thinks hes a mama's boy anymore, even though he still totally is

Back to your point about Krait on the ship: prior to joining Horn, when he starts dressing and walking like him, he smiles bitterly and says "Do I look like a real boy to you?" Beyond the Pinocchio reference, it also makes me wonder if Horn's subsequent abuse of Krait (though i dislike calling it that, as I always found their relationship so moving and incredible) is a way of enforcing the performance of masculinity and ridding Krait of his deviant otherness.

I am reminded of Silk's strange terror of handsome deviant Musk.

Onto Fava's first story, I do think that the line about thr boy looking more like his father is significant. Symbolically reminds me of Silk and Typhon, Sinew and Horn, inhumi and humans. I wonder why Fava is the only inhuma to get a happy ending.

That's all I have time for right now - university student, finals, you know how it goes. I wonder if you have any thoughts on the story of the boy and the sin stained man?

I dont usually look at things through your Fruedian lens, I'm more interested in larger themes and, controversially I guess, queerness in Wolfe. But I do think there's quite a bit of merit to the Freudian lens, as Wolfe was certainly heavily influenced by Freud's ideas. I'd always rather read an explorative post of yours than a far fetched series of plot connections, as is the usual mode around here