In a message dated Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:05:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> writes: >Gaertk at aol.com writes: > >> 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. > > "Set up" by Steven, or by a character in the books (and if > so which one)? Yes. :) Well, obviously Steven "set up" everything in the books, but I was actually thinking of Sethra. "I can't leave Dzur Mountain" is a really weak excuse. Aliera has been lost for 500 years by now, a couple weeks won't make any difference, and I doubt Sethra expected the Jenoine business to take longer than that. --KG