So I wondered: what will happen to Kâna, also called Skinter, after he loses? We know he's going to, of course. Well, the most likely scenario is that he will lose his head. But I had the following notion: Consider that the driving force behind his strategy, the brains of the outfit, is really his cousin. Consider also that perhaps the illegality of his rebellion situation is a bit uncertain. Is he in fact being treasonous? There isn't an Empire yet for him to be treasonous *to*. And What if he eventually surrenders? What if the Empress decides to show him clemency? What happens next? Well, it occurs to me that his House might be sufficiently annoyed with him that they might well eject him from it. And either the Empire or the House might wish to punish him for his overreaching arrogance by somehow cursing him (using sorcery or elder sorcery or necromancy, or whatever), by causing him to become a complete non-entity, well-nigh invisible. And he might then change his name, and join the Jhereg, and, suffused with bitterness, vow never to be the one in charge. As I type this up, it seems more and more farfetched. But I still think it an amusing notion.