--- mary whalen <marewhalen at yahoo.com> wrote: > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > 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 believe it's in _Athyra_. > > 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. > > Actually, going to the Paths of the Dead and > returning alive are unusual enough to be interesting > to almost anyone. Maybe an interdimensional traveler > interested in Dragaera found out what Vlad did and > told him that he would only spread the story in his > home dimension. If he got interested in Vlad's story > or hooked on his style (easy enough to do) he might > come back for more and get lucky. Then again... Also, both Kiera and Verra seem to have known there was something special about Vlad even before he got recruited with unnecessary drama. The "fool" could have gotten the information from either of them. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools