I suppose I should add, perhaps, a wee bit of spoiler space to this one. So... Here's some spoiler space. You've been, like, warned, and stuff. Philip Hart wrote: > Put the damn rock in a different room. Use a concealment not subject to > Spellbreaker. I believe, for the Jenoine, that that is impossible. They do not use the word "place" in the same way humans, humans, or us humans (heh), do. They *had* no other place to put it. In fact, the whole idea of trying to sort out why the Jenoine did what they did is, in my opinion, silly. Even Sethra & Co. doesn't know enough about them to determine motive. As for Spellbreaker, though it wasn't a GW at the time, the Jenoine were unable to touch or alter Blackwand or Pathfinder, so why should or would they come near Vlad's chain? (Of course, all this speculation about Jenoine and their motives and what they *should* have done is silly, when one remembers that we don't know anything, really, about them. I suspect that, as usual, Steve is simply telling us only what he wishes to. Hell, he's as capricious as Verra! <grin> > I think kittens are cute. I think kittens with rifles are cute - > http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2003/12/about_our_masco.html#more > for example. I don't think kittens with sea-launched ballistic missles > are cute. Now wait a second. Kittens with rifles are cute, but they're not cute with sea-launched ballistic missles? Hmm... what about ... nah, nevermind. > Sethra, M, and A are principal opponents of the J, if we can > trust S. The J can't be dumb enough not to notice that the creatures they > find "cute" have been thwarting them for many thousands of years. I doubt they view it that way. I suspect they believe that the creatures who have been thwarting them for years are the Gods, and the "cute" ones are the God's "pets". > > Which tops a series of seeming inconsistencies: she tells M&A that > > they're traitors or fools for bringing her where the Jenoine can > > hurt her, but then she is not without power, they still fear her, > > Vlad didn't have to interpose his shoulder, but then all she can > > do is jump on a Jenoine as if it had borrowed her best dress. > > Yes. As I recall, they'd re-established their link to the Lesser Sea, and so Verra's powers, as those of the GWs, might not have been up to the task. I can't recall what preceded Verra's jumping on one (does the text say?), but I can see even a powerful Goddess getting furious and losing her temper. :) Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'