>It looks as if Brust the author slipped. Of course, time flows differently in the Paths of the Dead, where >Morrolan meets Baritt before Baritt has died in Dragaera [], so maybe there's a loophole for Verra there. And, of >course, it would have been impolitic even for Vlad to correct a goddess's arithmetic when the number was not > >germane to the business at hand. Likely more Vlad didn't realize it or know, else I think he would've said something.