Dragaera

Alternate ending for _Jhereg_

Thu Mar 25 12:00:18 PST 2004


On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Alexx Kay wrote:

> Not necessarily.  So far, as far as he knows, his plan is working
> swimmingly.  If Vlad displayed such intimate knowledge of his plan,
> I suspect that would surprise him, and thus make him more wary.


Dumb question perhaps, but why doesn't Mellar speed the process along by
either covertly putting out word on the Jhereg street that he's at CB or
by having a hit done on himself (and arrange to have it be permanent but
not Morganti)?  Even if the work got traced back to him eventually, the
war would be well underway.  Basically he's standing around daring the
best minds in the Jhereg and Dragon to outthink him - why wait?