On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 17:51:35 -0500, you wrote: >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 > Wasn't Devera the dragon in the big battle scene in Issola? -- lazarus "Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, may waste the memory of the former days." -- King Henry IV, Part ii Act 4, Scene 5