Matthew Klahn writes: Meh. Actually, after Teckla, my respect for Cawti plummeted. I understand her convictions, but I do agree with Vlad that it's not nice to throw other people's lives away to further your own philosophy, no matter how much good you think it's doing for everyone else. I think of it more that they weighed the furthering of their goals versus the lives they were "throwing away". At least, i hope they did. And, Teckla and Phoenix made me so mad at her that I can't really like her as a character anymore. :( I feel much like Noish-pa does... i love them, but what they are doing is foolishness. But sometimes the only way to find out you can't do something is to try. rone -- Light stupidity decays into heavy stupidity. This violates energy conservation, but that's stupidity for you. - Rich Holmes <rsholmes+usenet at mailbox.syr.edu>