>From: Iván Rebollo <ivanrebollo at hotmail.com> >>Which means that Vlad might be a rules-breaker once more, the first guy >>whom the Jhereg attempt to assassinate inside Valabar's.... >> There's a fun thought- New Vlad story? >>Thomas Crain >> > >Yesterday I finished reading Issola and there was something that I didn't >manage to understand then, but that maybe now takes sense: Issola finishes >with Vlad in front of Valabar's saying "there were no assassins waiting to >kill me, at least yet". > >I remember that in Yendi one of the clues which makes Vlad start to wonder >if its opponent (I don't remeber its name) actually doesn't try to kill him >is that in the last kill attempt the assassins didn't try to kill him >inside the restaurant but in the door, where he can move freely. Later he >argues, with kraagar or Cawti (I read Yendi several years ago, sorry), >trhat it is stupid and no competent assassin would do like this. So, why >Vlad thinks that the Jheregh's assassins, who there's no doubt that wants >him dead, will not strike him inside but that they will wait him outside? I believe that he was not actually at Valabar's in Yendi, and the Valabar Exclusion Rule applies only to Valabars- Vlad thinks restaurants are great places to "work". >If these non-written rule about Valabar's safety does exists, Vlad thought >and conduct will take sense in two ways: (i) they will wait him to respect >the rule and (ii) Vlad choices Valabar's because, althought he doesn't >worry now about the Jhereg, he wants the best meal: if in the middle of it >appears an army of assassins he won't enjoy it, doesn't he? > >Iván. > It's a reflex James Griffin, Still Another Vlad faN ________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail