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.