On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:46:54PM +1000, Nigel Leslie <to_nige at mail.com> wrote: > I'm really not too sure about that. When we met Mario in 500 Years After, he > didn't seem have any kind of 'super blending' power. Just a lot of > preparation, luck and youthful brashness.... In Jhereg and Yendi, Vlad says a lot about how the art of the assassin includes blending into crowds and moving through them unseen. It's a skill he learned from Kiera, and then mastered on his own. You don't think a few hundred years of careful preperation and effort on developing that skill would pay off with Kragar's oh-so-casual nobody-notices-me? I'm about to reread 500YA, so I will be looking for evidence. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)