On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Joshua Kronengold wrote: #David Silberstein writes: #>Vlad has received a course in Stealth 101 from *THE* absolute #>top-level Jhereg expert in stealth. # #Ok...so why would Morrolan think Vlad appearing be anything other than #what it is? # # #>Morrolan not only never had the basics of stealth taught to him, he's #>quite aware of his own limitations in intrusion detection (which is #>to say, stealth being used tactically to penetrate defenses), which is #>why he hired Vlad in the first place. # #Which is why that statement wouldn't make any sense if there weren't #anything funny going on. # #I think. Back in _Jhereg_, in one of the last chapters, in Castle Black as Vlad & Co. are preparing their assault on Mellar, Vlad talks about slipping through the crowd and being completely unnoticeable, as part of the assassin's craft. I agree with David that this is what he meant. (He may even mention there having learnt it from Kiera.) -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website