> But in the events leading up to the first Dragon-Jhereg war, about > 10,000 years before the Interregnum, the Dragons > > "... got the head of their messenger returned to them in a basket. > The insult, reasoned the Jhereg, wasn't *that* great. After all, they > hadn't destroyed the poor fellow's brain, or done anything else to make > him unrevivifiable. They were just sending the Dragons a message." > [Jrg73] Hey, maybe he just got it a bit wrong, and the Jhereg actualy sent the head, with the spinal cord still attached, back in a basket! Then he'd have been revivifiable. Wouldn't be the first time Vlad was a litte off in his knowledge of history. And isn't that a much more disgusting image? (The head and the spinal cord, I mean.:) Chris "The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." ~ Oliver Wedell Holmes, Sr. - "Over the Teacups" (1891)