On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Claire Rojstaczer wrote: #On a more on-topic note, not that we're ever on topic here, I was #rereading Athyra the other day and noted a passage where Savn asks #Vlad if Vlad has ever been in the army and Vlad says simply, "No" #(sorry, no page numbers, don't have the book with me at the moment). #This, fairly obviously, contradicts Dragon. Vlad could have been #lying -- he certainly lies to Savn about enough other stuff -- but #why lie about that? What motives does Vlad have for keeping his #(somewhat less than shining) military career a secret? Well, he's not exactly lying, imho. He was working with that army, but not as a regular soldier, and ISTR that he wasn't sworn or anything like that (I'm AFB). -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website