Now that we know that our dreamweaver is a closet devotée of television shows, a horrible thought has occurred to me. Not only does he currently indulge in cop shows, but perhaps he started on less evolved fare of the sixties, such as "My Favorite Martian" or "My Mother the Car". Now, take this knowledge with Mr. Brust's obvious interest in horror and fantasy and his hypothetical universe where reincarnation is a reality, and the future may be revealed. After all, we have seen three things in the Dragaeran universe: one may be incarnated into a form quite different from the original (Dolivar the Dragon into Vlad the Easterner); Dragaera was settled by humans who seem to share a common heritage with us, as in Kelly's discovery of Marxist tracts that revealed to him the truth; and scientific developments occur (the orb was evolved). So, one can imagine Mr. Brust taking us either to an earthly past that is troublingly like the one in which we live, or a future which, like ontogeny, has recapitulated phylogeny. In this scenario our hero is reincarnated not as an Easterner, not as a Human, but as a murderous motor vehicle. In this tale, obviously directed at a future television serious, he will be known as.... Vlad, the Impala.