> From: John Mietus [mailto:sirchuck at macomb.com] > I wasn't trying to imply anything -- I just wanted to make sure you'd > read Orca without giving away any spoilers to those few people on the > list who hadn't yet. > Ah, yes. I'd mentioned that in the opening paragraph as something to basically ignore. Kiera stands on her own, so any stories about her or told >from her point of view would ignore _Orca_ or at most make oblique references to it. In fact, I'd imagine a series of Kiera stories to be set in the time period between _Viscount_ and _Taltos_ such that Vlad would either not exist (being unborn at the time) or he'd be a youngster getting his first taste of the "business" side of the House with Kiera as occasional mentor.