[Great big implied spoilers for _Orca_.] David Silberstein wrote: [quoting Philip Hart:] >> Just to further expound on my misinterpretation >> there, I was thinking that Kiera had made a move on >> Vlad at some point (in Jhereg we see them smooch a >> little I think) > I note a certain subtle character mismatch between > the Kiera of "Jhereg" and the Kiera of "Orca" - in > "Orca", Kiera seems to me to be too distant > and self-controlled to do something so uninhibited > as that earlier smooch. Although maybe Vlad was > being unreliable about that kiss. Well, that may be in part because in _Orca_ we are hearing about Kiera from Kiera's point of view, and also because Kiera's story is framed as a conversation with Cawti. If at any time, past or present, Kiera might have regarded Vlad with more than sisterly warmth (which I sort of doubt to begin with, though if Aliera's comments from Jhereg are at all reliable we can't rule out something between Sethra and Dolivar), she surely wouldn't tell Cawti about it. Then again, it has never been entirely clear to me whom Kiera is addressing in _Orca_ when she tells her story. It isn't Vlad, and if anyone, it seems like Cawti; but there are parts left in that she clearly left out when she spoke to Cawti, and so maybe the version we hear would not necessarily have been shaded to preserve Cawti's sensibilities. This is the sort of thing that makes me wonder where, if anywhere, SKZB is taking the idea that Vlad's words as we read them are actually spoken to a recording device. My hunch is that it is a stylistic conceit that will never figure significantly in the plot, but I could well be wrong. -- Greg __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com