Indeed. I'm also reminded that she may very well have been bustling about all day, as her alter-ego, taking care of business. As said esteemed personage is not a God, she must, of course, engage in activities in serial -- not parallel. It is also quite possible that she was engaged in activities she did not think proper to mention to either Cawti, Vlad, or "us"; or that she was looking into matters more, but the results became useless. - T ----- Original Message ----- From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:47 PM Subject: Re: Two temporal peculiarities (mild Orca spoiler) > Oh, people used to spend *months* "hastening" from one side of the > world to the other. > --