Smed <smed51 at yahoo.com> writes: > Delurking from the list...... Welcome! (but shouldn't that be *to* the list?) > I've been speculating about whether or not Tazendra, Pel and Aerich > survive to Vlad's time. This evening I was reading LoCB for the second > time and noticed something interesting. On page 111, Paarfi talks about > the return of the Orb stating "To others, such as Aerich, this > connection came, but a little more slowly: he reports that he knew at > once what had happened.... > > Note the present tense: Aerich reports. This implies that Aerich is > alive at the point that Paarfi wrote the story. I don't think so; I think it implies that Aerich was alive at the time that he "reported" -- and that report could have been a written letter that later came into Paarfi's hands. I don't think it tells us anything about Aerich's lifespan. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b at dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <noguns-nomoney.com> <www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera mailing lists: <dragaera.info/>