Dragaera

Overcast, clue-by-fours

Mon Aug 5 18:54:59 PDT 2002

He actually did mention "several" trips to the east in a conversation with
Loiosh in Orca... something to the effect of where they were going to go
next.
L: "We could go east again, we've been there several times..."
V: "Nah... Not again".

I'm paraphrasing VERY loosely.


-----Original Message-----
From: Gaertk at aol.com [mailto:Gaertk at aol.com]
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 7:35 PM
To: dragaera at dragaera.info
Subject: Re: Overcast, clue-by-fours

In a message dated Mon, 5 Aug 2002 5:58:00 PM Eastern
Standard Time, Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes:

>
> Hm.  At the start of ch9 of _Teckla_, Vlad has stayed up
> all night:
>
>    "When daylight began to filter down through the
> orange-red haze that Dragaerans think is a sky, I still
> wasn't feeling sleepy."
>
> I think this particular sentence is ambiguous regarding
> whether it means the sky is always orange...but perhaps
> this is, in part, because I don't clearly remember how
> [visible] / [well-lit] clouds are at night here on Earth.

Since Vlad's living in a city, there's probably a good deal
of light from street lights and night businesses; the "light
pollution" amateur astronomers keep complaining about.

> Hm.  I don't remember one way or the other: Are there any
> moons?

I believe Vlad mentions tides in _Phoenix_, and that would
pretty much guarantee a moon.

> As I recall, Vlad doesn't seem to pay much attention to the
> stars, so who knows if that solar system has other planets
> that sometimes shine more brightly than stars.

As far as we know, Vlad may never have *seen* the stars from
this planet, except through Noish-pa's memories.  He's seen
stars in the Halls of Judgement (did he see stars in
_Issola_?).  Of course, he's made at least one trip East, so
he may of seen stars then, but then again, maybe not.  He
didn't seem to stay there very long (he didn't improve his
language skills).

--KG


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