On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Trager wrote: #That was how I'd always guessed it. # #Then again, Aliera might have decided in the PotD that Kieron was just #really hot, so she took his sword to give her a pretext to see him #again. For personal reasons, not the political ones we'd always #assumed. Ahhh... weren't they brother and sister in Kieron's lifetime, along with Vlad? -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website