Philip Hart wrote: > So the Demon hires Vlad in part because Mellar may have fled to the East > and V has contacts there. I was just wondering, if M wanted to flee > there, how long would it take him? It's not entirely clear to me how far > the Orb's influence extends - though from _BP_ probably well into the > East. Anyway, if M can't teleport directly, lacking for example the > coordinates, he'd presumably have to travel to the mountains and cross a > pass, which would make him a good target. Most likely he would instead > go to Greenaere, perhaps by being teleported to a ship near the edge of > the Orb's influence. > > Anyway, it seems to me that the Organization has too short a deadline to > go looking for M out East. They should probably consider faking a corpse > and getting a loan from the Empire. Actually, they're heavily invested > in certain banks, as we learn in _Orca_ - why do they have such a glut of > cash in _Jhereg_? > > > Putting aside the cash issues, it occurs to me that "two people can keep a secret if one of them has been done Morganti." That is, faking a corpse would only be a temporary measure, because people involved in the faking would talk, and might further smack of desperation once the story started to get around. Derrill