> > Hullo. > > My first post. Forgive me if this has been covered, but I could not find mention of it in the archives. > > Without further ado, I propose: > > Grita (Orlaan) is the child of Greycat (Garland) and Sennya (Duchess of Blackbirdriver) and therefore Ibronka's half-sister <snip> > Thoughts? Agreement. Two more bits of evidence, which, though circumstantial, do support the case: PoD page 154: Sennya, while thinking of Ibronka, muses about the many errors in her life, including one specific (though undescribed) occasion when she was "weak". PoD page 233: Sennya, after events around the time of FHYA, which Paarfi alludes to but does not descibe, decides to give up ostentation and focus her efforts on raising Ibronka, "the daughter who was now, to her, the only reason for living." In point of fact, when a similar discussion happened recently on rec.arts.sf.written, I was rather surprised to find that Grita's parentage had never been made explicit, and that some readers had missed the, to my mind, quite broad hints about it. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx "...my fictional William Gull ("Sidney Greenstreet after a crash course at the Abby of Thelema," as Iain Sinclair recently, with heartless accuracy, described him)." -- Alan Moore in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_