At 02:18 AM 3/21/2003 -0500, 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? That one's easy enough. He was lying simply because he didn't want to talk about it.