On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > [no spoiler space, just spoiler warning :-] > > This may have been discussed earlier, but it's my turn to re-read > _Dragon_, so I'm going to ask about/mention it anyways. > > In _Dragon_, during the denument, Vlad says (about sneaking up on > Fornia): > > Morrolan spotted me, although I was awfully close when he > did; he probably doesn't know how I did that, or maybe he just > thinks he was concentrating too hard on Fornia. > > This seems to indicate that whatever Morrolan thinks about how Vlad > did that...he's wrong. > Now...Morrolan -knows- Vlad is awfully good at sneaking. So that can't > be it. > And if it were some kind of sorcery, it probably wouldn't have worked, > and certainly wouldn't have been a secret from Morrolan, certainly not > when the story is dictated, while Vlad is courting Cawti and has been > friends with Morrolan for years. I don't think it's anything other than 'Vlad is good at sneaking'. Morrolan doesn't know much about how to be sneaky, as it's not really in his nature. So it'd be expected that he wouldn't know exactly how Vlad managed it. paul e.