>>>>I think I recall in Taltos that Morrolan can see a lot better than >>>>Vlad. >>> Do you always generalize from a sample of one? >>This is (one hopes intentionally) very funny. > It is also a very good example of a snarky rhetorical question. I > would have been more courteous, but a response that paraphrased a line > from _Issola_ was just too good an opportunity to miss, as well as > being appropriate. That's what single quotation marks are for. Must be getting old - I don't remember this line in _I_. Kudos to SKZB for this like-line and to you for slipping it between my shoulder blades. The scene in _Taltos_ I was referring to turns out to exist - Chapter 9. M. sees or hears the cat centaurs, V. has no clue, L. flys "for most of a minute" before reporting back. Why M. wants to walk to Deathgate Falls with V. when they could presumably step through a window is beyond me. A related point - Dragaeran memory is impressive. Sethra has detailed recollection of incidental conversations from (too lazy to check Alexx's timeline) many hundreds of years ago (_Yendi_) which Vlad probably misreports after a few years. The storage capacity, chemical stability, filing heuristics, brain cell lifetime, ... involved are a triumph for those lame guys (the Shaqs of the Dragaeran universe). - Philip