On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:13:32AM -0800, David Silberstein wrote: > Somehow, I think that's Vlad being unreliable, perhaps for the sake of > simplification. We've seen that Dragaerans can be a lot more complex > than he gives them credit for with the above, and the idea that all > Dragons would value loyalty over strict obedience, and a Jhereg never > would, strikes me as being inconsistent with that sort of complexity. > But then, this was in the first book, and we know Steve was still > working things out. The author would probably prefer to say "Vlad was young, and hadn't had much of a chance to work it all out." :-) -- "I try not to sound old and cynical, but it's hard to do that when you're old and cynical." -me