Jag wrote: > Good point. We've already seen a case where someone in one > of the Paarfi Romances was secretly a character from the Vlad > novels as well as that and later Paarfi Romances, namely > Zerika. Who says there can't be more? Are you deliberately obfuscating the issue? Steve said that that isn't what he meant. Zivra and Zerika are two names for the same person, no disguise, no secrecy. She is simply using an assumed name, as do Athos, Aramis and Porthos (oops I mean Aerich, Pel and Tazendra). This is very different from two distinct characters being presented by our author secretly (from the reader) being one and the same person. Sheesh. I guess subtlety doesn't work around here. Casey