Dennis Higbee wrote: > > Well, Aliera says there isn't. > > Vlad: I'm surprised they bothered with an animal like the jhereg. > > Aliera: They didn't. They managed to put human level intelligence in a > brain the size of a rednut, but [she explains where the Jhereg came from]. > > It's in _Jhereg_, right before Aliera tells Vlad about his past life. Of > course, Aliera could be wrong... There are indications in _Issola_ that the version of distant history she gave Vlad is not entirely consistent with Sethra's view of the same period. Of the two, I'd be more likely to trust Sethra (unless she has ulterior motives), for obvious reasons. Aliera, with all of her height-compensation tendencies, is just the sort of person to sound 100% sure of something which she's only 50% certain of with 50% being put together from conjecture, hearsay, and straight-out flying leaps in the dark. -- James Burbidge jamesandmary.burbidge at sympatico.ca