On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Mark A Mandel wrote: > >But "making it up from whole cloth in order bolster his attempts to >draw Tazendra out" doesn't sound to me consistent with Khaavren's >honest character. > Well, there is lying with intent to deceive, and there is stuff that a usually honest yet passionate young person might well throw in to add verisimilitude, excitement, and local color to an otherwise bald and insipid narrative. Especially when slightly drunk, which he is at the time. Khaavren would almost certainly avoid the first, but I think he does the latter now and then during the coure of /The Phoenix Guards/. Of course, we could always blame it on Paarfi.