On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Jag wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 14:52, Philip Hart wrote: > > > > I'd be more interested in a story from Loiosh's POV. I don't want to hear > > Sethra's POV, frankly - I don't think she could be presented convincingly. > > Orca Spoiler...... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think he SKZB did a good job of Sethra's POV in Orca. In _O_ we get (for the most part) Kiera's POV, filtered through some odd set of perspectives - talking to Vlad, talking to Cawti. Well, we get a bit of Sethra/Kiera talking to a dog and a brain-damaged boy. For example, IIRC there's a nice bit at the beginning where K says to V, long time no see, telling herself that from V's perspective it has been a long time since he's an Easterner. From S's point of view almost everybody is about to die. And at the end there's a nice bit about her not fearing any one person - though actually S doesn't fear any n people, probably... In _O_ we don't get Sethra musing about how much Vlad is like Dolivar, or about particular spells, or, well, any of a hundred fascinating things. More importantly, we don't get much emotional insight. She's far enough away from our experience that I doubt a Vladiad book could do her justice.