Toubib wrote: >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? > If Faulkner can get away with Addie Bundren talking to us from her coffin--twice!--then Steven can certainly get away with Keira telling us a version of events she does not tell to Cawti, within a version of events she does tell to Cawti (-: Snarkhunter