--paul w wrote on 8/10/2004: > >What does a jhereg nest look like? --Skychild70 at hotmail.com wrote on 8/10/2004 > >We've seen a whole Jhereg city! Hi, I think the closest thing we have seen to a Jhereg (House) city is the Underside Chapter 5 Five Hundred Years After. Paarfi refers to it as a district. In Book of Taltos, Phoenix page 240, Vlad describes Adrilankha. "And behind them, the city. Or, rather, the cities, for we each had our own: . . . I saw the city that held my special place along Lower Kieron Road, where the bitter of violence mixed with the sweet of luxury, and you walked with your eyes open, either to grab at a passing opportunity or to prevent yourself from becoming one." Maybe after a long enough time, parts of Adrilankha will be like The Underside. On a jhereg (Rocza and Loiosh) nest, we have not been told what it would look like. We know from the prologue in The Book of Jhereg, Jhereg: The mother jhereg knows how to find her nest and can retrieve an egg from it. The mother jhereg seems to care enough about her offspring to consider if Vlad is worthy enough. The size of an average female. But we do not know if the female and/or the male incubate the eggs. If at all. Vlad thinks she has a nest of eggs. The size of an egg. That the egg cracks not tears. Vlad was "somewhat startled by its warmth." Vlad keeps the egg next to his chest. Vlad has the egg two months before it hatches. Vlad does not mention any dirt or sand or anything on the egg. But the mother jhereg could have cleaned the egg off if it was buried (turtle’s or alligator ’s eggs). We know from The book of Athyra, Athyra Page 41 that Rocza is looking for a nest. "But it was so hard to find a nest while traveling all the time." Find a nest could mean find a place to build, to dig a nest or just find a right size hole in a tree or the ground. Or Rocza could mean just what she says. A jhereg nest could be the nest of another animal or another jhereg. Rocza could be looking for an abandoned nest or one that is occupied with a convenient food or soon to be heat source. Hopefully, we will read a description of a jhereg nest in an upcoming book. If there is not any description, hopefully, a jhereg nest will not be on the cover because then we will have no idea what it should look like. Bye. Linda G.