> At the end of the day, M+BW straight up for Aliera+Kieron's sword seems > like a bad deal, and I don't see why Sethra agreed to it, despite her > friendship with Aliera (or perhaps even in view of it) - unless she had > some inside info she didn't share with Vlad. But I don't see how any > insider plan could depend on V being able to pull off a teleport by > witchcraft. Well, except for prescience, in which case one wonders how > the insiders could ever lose. She had some prophecies that caused her to give her to give him Blackwand in the first place. And Kiera gave him that valuable vial and wasn't surprised nor mad to find out that Vlad "lost" it.