On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:15:12 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 12/30/2002 10:11:19 AM Eastern Standard >Time, Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> writes: > >>On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 11:25, Michelle Goepp wrote: > >>> Yet why >>> then would she involve the title character of the >>> novel, who is Piro, the Viscount of Adrilankha, and >>> who we are assured us a good deal younger than the >>> Phoenix Heir? >> >> I believe that Piro was Zerika's choice. She grew up with >> him and probablly missed him. She also doubtless knew of >> Piro's parents, so there is no doubt that Piro would be a >> good travelling companion, as well as being someone that >> the remaining Pheonix already trusts. > >Piro was summoned by Sethra weeks before Zerika learned who >she really was. > > >--KG But almost assuredly the reasoning still pertains, that Piro was someone Zerika would be comfortable with. -- 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