On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, David Silberstein wrote: #[1] Although what was up with that Dark Water business, anyway? Why #should it *matter* if plain, ordinary ground water has been exposed to #light or not? It doesn't *matter* in our universe, where there are AFAWK no such things as magic, psychic traces, undead, and so on. IMHO it's perfectly believeable in the Dragaeran universe. If you accept those as part of the story, you have to be willing to accept this at least as a possibility. # Although it occurs to me that this may have been yet #another thing misunderstood (or miscommunicated) by Vlad He is certainly misinformed about plenty of other things. This is very useful for Steve as author; cf. http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/cracks.html#Principles and its subsection http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/cracks.html#premise -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website