On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Thomas FURNITURE ARTIST wrote: #Consider the FACTS WE KNOW. [deleted most of very nice analysis] #So what does it mean when the Orb goes white? White is the color of sickness (Issola 71). So the Orb is warning that there's trouble in the system that it's part of? -- Mark A. Mandel http://world.std.com/~mam/Cracks-and-Shards/ a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website # She -knows- she has only moments, so essentially she gets the f*ck #out of dodge, I think that's "Dodge", capital D, short for "Dodge City" in the Old West. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel