On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > >The Book of Taltos, Taltos Chapter 7, page 73 on Aliera's soul. >Sethra says "we have located it, with your help, as well as the >help of ...well, some others." > >The Book of Taltos, Taltos Chapter 14, page 142 >Aliera says "Who tracked me down?" Morrolan answers. "Sethra and >I, he said, watching her face. He glanced at me quickly, then >said, "And there were others who helped, some time ago." >Who are the others? Why not mention their names? Why the quick >glance at Vlad? Well, I had a pararectal notion about that, which I shall disclose now: The "others" were Aliera's mother and daughter, Verra and Devera. And the thought going through Sethra's mind was probably something like "I *really* don't want to start explaining *that* right now", so she didn't give their names. Morrolan's quick glance at Vlad was probably because Vlad had helped too, but Morrolan didn't want to go into the fact that they had needed the help of a Jhereg (and/or Easterner). It's also possible that he didn't know the names of the others, for that matter, and didn't want to confess his ignorance. And if he *did* know, *he* probably didn't want to get into explaining all that just now. Who can say?