In a message dated Tue, 16 Jul 2002 6:10:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, Robert Opramolla <moghan_david at yahoo.com> writes: > After rereading the opener to Jhereg again myself, it is > clear that the assassination attempt at Vlad’s Father’s > restaurant was clearly not Mario. If Mario is as good as > we are led to believe, Vlad would never have even noticed > him. I assumed the person who first asked this question was talking about the guy Kiera was eating with, not the assassin. > I think the question that needs to be asked. Was the whole > assassination as set up by Sethra/Kiera to gain the > confidence of Vlad? He was more shocked by her kindness > than by witnessing a murder. I'm not sure about that scene (could have been coincidence that Kiera was there, or Verra's doing; Vlad did pray to her). But I am convinced that everything in _Taltos_ was set up to put Aliera and Morrolan in Vlad's debt. --KG