Good sir: I bow before your superior scholarship. It would be rather a stretch that Laszlo should be reincarnate with the same name, though, I suppose, not impossible. It is more likely, methinks, that through some sorcery, possibly aided by her intimate association with the Orb, Zerika has been able to keep him alive and, one hopes, young and fit. It would certainly be dreary for a human to have a lover that took ill and died every few decades; one would then have to find his reincarnation and wait for it to attain adulthood; a most tedious lapse. As to the nature of human and Easterner souls: While the Easterner Taltos (I suppose we should be more respectful; is he not in fact a Baron now?) is known to both err and lie, it is not clear to me that he willfully lies *to his readers*. Further, if he were going to lie about anything, I would think it would be (at least by omission) about the fact that his soul is that of a Dragon and a traitor. This fact, revealed to him by Aliera, is most unpalatable, not to mention shaming, to him, and I cannot think that he should wish to reveal it. Yet he does. Is this not strange. Your obedient Servant, Mia M'Daffyd