On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:31:36 -0600, you wrote: >Steve Simmons wondered aloud to the group: > > In the process, she took a motherless > >Easterner with ownership of an ongoing business and turned him into > >a thief, a thug, and a cold-blooded multiple murderer. > >Is it not that Kiera expressed regret that Vlad wanted to get into the >beating-people-up business, but got him the gig anyway? Beyond getting him >the job at the gambler's (wozname), she didn't get him offered "work", and >he took his territory himself, though she helped him defend it. Vlad made >himself a force in the Jhereg; for what Sethra has used him for, it would >have made no difference whether he was a bouncer in a shereba bar or the >don of South Adrilankha. > >In fact, from Vlad's earliest memories, Kiera's been nice to him, as you >would be nice to a child, and then nice to a young adult, as you might be >to someone who reminds you of someone you used to be friends with a long >time ago. > Doesn't he? AFB, but what was the name of Kieron's brother, the one Vlad was in a previous life? -- lazarus "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public." -- Theodore Roosevelt