On pg 15 (ppb) of _Dragon_ Vlad describes having related the events of _Taltos_, which occurred "just days before", to a box with ears. Somewhere else we learn someone convinced him his stories would never get back to anyone involved. I found it rather difficult to suspend my disbelief that V would confide to a stranger the histories of the Vladiad. It now strikes me as rather odd that the stranger in question would know to question V after _Taltos_ - before he'd been rather unusual but (as far as we know) hardly noteworthy to anyone except Kiera. Hmm.