Old stuff in the mailbox, and I don't remember if this ever got a reply: On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, BLACKSTOCK, ROB wrote: #In "Yendi," Sethra says that Sethra the Younger was the only apprentice #she ever had who never tried to kill her. #Does that mean Tazendra will eventually turn on Sethra? #I always assumed that Tazendra blew herself up later in the series. #Could it have been Sethra's work instead? In POTD Tazendra is guarding the approach to Dzur Mountain that Piro arrives by, but that doesn't mean she's SL's apprentice. -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website