In a message dated 2/19/2003 8:22:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes: [attrib lost] >> Can anyone make sense of Kiera's subsequent comment, >> in _Orca_ I think it was, that Verra had said it was > >I'm almost sure the comment was in _Taltos_. The vial itself only appears in _Taltos_, but it's discussed in _Orca_, page 283: "And what was that whole business with the blood of the goddess? Not that I haven't figured out who the goddess is." "I can't tell you that, Vlad. She said it was important for you to have that vial, and that she, herself, didn't know why." [And the next three lines are one of my favorite quotes.] --KG