Now that the Paarfiad is more or less complete, I'd be interested in seeing a new series of non-Vlad Dragaera stores featuring Kiera the Thief. It'd be a way to show another side of Dragaeran society and maybe some of the outsider cultures like the Serioli and even the Easterners while developing the back-story of one of the more interesting characters in Vlad's life. (For purposes of story-telling here, Brust would ignore the revelations of Orca or at most make vague allusions to them.) On the not-so-great idea side of this idea, I keep envisioning the stories as a kind of Michael Moorcock pastiche with Vlad playing Fafhrd to Kiera's Grey Mouser. :-P Try to imagine a Boris Vallejo portrait of Vlad poised for battle, bare-chested with Loiosh hissing on his shoulder (tail wrapped around his neck) while Kiera crouches at his feet in leather pants and an armless, low-cut tunic, ready to cut either a purse or a hamstring. Ha ha! Scott Schultz scott at cjhunter.com