Greg Rapawy writes: > When Pel does something in Chapter 2 that bears fruit > in chapter 16, that's impressive, because Pel was > thinking ten moves ahead. When Verra does it, that's > not impressive -- she's just traveling in time. Verra does not have the brains to match her power. See, for example, her method of trying to keep the Teckla from revolting in the early Vlad books. If Verra was as smart as Sethra, she'd be much more dangerous. -- "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