Toubib wrote: > --- Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: > >>That, of course, is one of the giveaways that tips >>Vlad off about the Secret >>later on. From a meta-story standpoint, that's all >>that one line is really >>about. It's likely that Steven didn't give a whole >>lot of thought as to the >>consequences of a few readers trying to interpret a >>single sentence as >>evidence to determine whether Aliera and Kiera are >>friends, but here we are >>anyway. *heh* > > > Well speaking of consequences of a single sentence, > who is Keira talking to? > > At one point Keira says "Vlad might well feel it > necessary to go and do something dangerous, and if I > let him get himself killed, I'd never be able to > explain it to Cawti". > > Now the problem I have with that sentence is that if > Keira is talking/writing to Cawti wouldn't she have > just said "I'd never be able to explain it to you"? So > is she talking to someone else? Maybe even Vlad's > little metal box, although I doubt that. Or is that > just a slip of Steven's pen? With Kiera, I think we're reading an unexpurgated version of the events in question. Whether she's telling her story to a little metal box or just writing it down in her diary, we can't really tell. Nevertheless, the story she tells Cawti can't be the same story we read, because we get Vlad's account in the first person (and I doubt Kiera tells it like that to Cawti), and we also get the unexpurgated version. Jose -- Jose Marquez \ Cthulhu 2004 jhereg69 at earthlink.net \ Why vote for http://home.earthlink.net/~jhereg69 \ the lesser evil?