> >> I confess that I am still puzzled as to why Aliera's soul was > >> sufficiently valuable to be retrieved from the Paths by such > >> extreme and unprecedently measures. > >Morrolan got the idea into his head. Once that happens, not even > >Sethra Lavode is likely to be able to convince him to stop :-) > Er. Morrolan wouldn't have even known he had a cousin whose soul was > in a staff if Sethra hadn't told him where it was. Wasn't meant to be so extreme. Sethra had Morrolan help her with finding Aliera and recruiting Vlad, and later rescuing Vlad. After that Vlad was supposed to hop over to the Paths, take the easy route in, meet Verra and then Aliera, and go out. Morrolan going was a last minute improv suggested jokingly by Vlad and taken up by Morrolan, no doubt to Sethra's surprise. -xx- Damien X-)