> > 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. Semi-new hypothesis: whoever Vlad *thinks* is paying him for these memoirs, the actual patron is Sethra Lavode. She wants the insights into his thinking, the better to mold him into... whatever she's molding him into... Alexx Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers. alexx at carolingiaSPAMBL@CK.org http://www.panix.com/~alexx "Kool-Aid Man was Scott [McCloud]'s version of Divine Intervention in the superhero role-playing game we ran. If you were ever in desperate straits, you could yell, "Hey, Kool-Aid!," and if you rolled some highly-unlikely number, he'd come crashing through the wall, bellowing "Oh Yeaahhhh!" and serving cheap refreshment." -- Kurt Busiek