In re Sethra the Younger: Someone commented that StY wants to take over Dzur Mtn/etc some day. I must disagree. An apprentice doesn't necessarily take over the masters business. The apprentice is usually there to *learn* the business and then strike out on his own. Someone commented that StY wouldn't survive the last volume. Since she appears in several of the Vlad novels, this seems unlikely. -- "In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal." -- author unknown