Just around the corner...

It is said about our dinosaur Pod when he encounters other kind of dinosaurs::

Luckily for them, Pod's instinct to avoid their kind is too deeply ingrained.

Feeling no *comfort factor*, he withdraws. As an added precaution, Pod puts some daylight between himself and the odd-sized animals.

Thank you Henry,you

My question: What does he mean by comfort factor", somehow it doen't make sense here.

Thank you very much

By the way I have a problem also with "put some daylight between himself..." but I stills have'nt try to dig into it.

Comfort factor is a safety margin.

"Put daylight between" means to create a clear gap between two things. A phrase popular recently in politics was to create/put/keep clear blue water between the policies of one party and another to show that they were different.

Thank you Henry you helped me immensely.

Another one:
"Just around the corner a change is in the wind".

Does it mean that a change is expected soon?

Thanks. I found a confirmation to my guess.

That's what you call a mixed metaphor, isn't it?

yes it is and it's kind of strange.

It's a combination of a Depression-era saying, "Prosperity is just around the corner" and (see archives) "winds of change."