On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Andrew McGuigan wrote: #SPOILER SPACE # # # # # # # # # #> # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #> # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #I *still* think Arra is Devera. She is short for a #human, as Aliera is short for a Dragaeran, she has #those big eyes, she doesn't age, and she puts up with #Dark Star. But she doesn't behave anything LIKE the way we've seen Devera behave, at least when in human (yeah, yeah) form. She's always appeared, AFAWK, as a little girl and acted like one, though an extraordinary one. Arra takes some pleasure in sexually embarrassing ... Uncle 'Rollan? Come ON! None of which proves, of course, that Steve isn't doing new and different things with Devera to play games with our heads. But IMHO it leaves this putative identification marked "unproved and very unlikely". -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website