Dragaera

Two temporal peculiarities (mild Orca spoiler)

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Wed Aug 27 10:23:41 PDT 2003

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michele Riccio wrote:

>On 26 Aug 2003 at 23:23, Alexx S Kay wrote
>
><snip>
>> It's definitely an inconsistency.  In my timeline, I dealt with it as
>> follows:
> <snip>
>> O, day 17
>>   Back to Vlad (O 171-174).  [Kiera says that after leaving Stony, she
>> "hastened back", but she must be either lying or mistaken.  After she
>> saw Stony, there had to be time for Stony to be killed by Vlad, and
>> for Savn to work on Loiosh "far into the night" (O 219).  Thanks to
>> allegro at innocent.com for pointing out this discrepancy.]
>
>As my physiology professor used to say "define your terms".  What 
>does Kiera mean by 'hastened'?  A race of people with a life 
>expectancy of thousands of years might have a different perception 
>of haste.
>

Bah.  I know of no definition of "hastened" which would cover a span
of time of more than a *day*, wherein no part of the day's events are
described.

Unless, of course, she went by way of Verra's Halls or the Paths of
the Dead, or similar time-warped location.