Philip Hart wrote: > 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. Sometimes you have to bet on a long shot if its your only shot at winning. Put another way, once you go all in, you don't fold. Casey