I've been rereading FHYA and noticed something a little odd. Near the end of the book, the last straw that causes Adron to go from waiting to attacking is learning of the arrest of his daughter. At the time Aerich comments on how he'd like to know the details of the arrest, and Adron confers and says that he will ask when he storms the city. However, earlier in the book it is noted that Adron and Aliera are capable of psionic communication with each other. So, this leads me to wonder, why didn't Aliera just tell her father what happened? And why didn't Adron try to communicate with Aliera to ask her? As best I can figure, Aliera hoped her arrest would lead to Adron taking action. That's why she was so nonchalant about Khaavren coming to arrest her. As for Adron, I suppose we can just assume that he was so outraged at what happened that he didn't think to, or want to[1], find out what really happened. I'm also somewhat surprised that Paarfi didn't predict this possible question from the reader and try to answer it for us.[2] Does anyone else have any possible explinations for why Adron and Aliera didn't communicate with one another following her arrest? Jag [1] There was a comment on how Adron was purposefully keeping some of his 'steam' in so that he would attack the Emporer. [2] Unless he did it in about the last 50 pages of the book, in which case I'm going to feel really stupid once I get to that part again.