Scott Schultz wrote: > 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.) It would be interesting, but I've always wanted to read a story (even a short story!) from Loiosh's viewpoint. Sure, there'd be a good deal of eating and flittering around and death and wise-arse comments, but we get that with the Vlad novels too, don't we? <grin> > 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! Damn you!! I will never be able to look at a Vallejo portrait again without thinking of this. ;) That's funny--scary, but funny. Chris "I would rather go honestly to Hell, admitting that I leaped knowingly into error and folly, than enter into the sweetest Heaven men can dream of by whining that I had been pushed." - _Freedom and Necessity_ - Brust & Bull