Dragaera

started rereading _TPotD_

Tue Jul 15 23:19:28 PDT 2003

> Hmm.  If the Orb can track anyone, why was the location of the
> Baroness Kaluma unknown in tPG?

I was about to exult over the possible solution to something that had
puzzled me for a while.  To wit, at the end of _Phoenix_, Aliera shows up
with Vlad's ueberboss nicely trussed up and says in part (AFB) that the
Orb helped.  But how did the Orb help?  Maybe it found the ueberboss.
Unfortunately, Pathfinder could do that just as well.  Unless it (Drien
seems to me a brilliant supposition but kind of a coincidence) requires
something - say some epithelials - to work with...