On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > Something that we readers of Paarfi must keep in mind is that > Paarfi makes stuff up. For example, in /The Paths of the Dead/, > when Piro and Kytraan meet Tazendra, it's this hugely dramatic > moment where they can't see who is challenging them because of > the sunglare - except that because the sun is directly in their > faces and is *behind* her, it must follow that Tazendra can > easily make out who she is addressing, [...] This is not entirely clear to me, speaking as someone with some photophobia. Dragaerans may have evolved some adaptation to the overcast (well, the generation time is very long and it's been less than ~100k years and selection pressure is hard to judge for intelligent beings). Anyway, I can imagine that on a very bright day, looking down from above, at some distance, at age 1000, I might have trouble making out a face. One might as well ask why K didn't recognize T's voice straight off. Anyway, the whole Sethra-sends-two-expeditions-to-Adrilankha thing struck me as improbable. Perhaps she told Paarfi that she had summoned Zerika - then later mentioned that K had picked up Piro, and he got confused about the two trips. And perhaps he tossed in the meeting with T for fun. But absent clear evidence (esp. on points refutable by surviving witnesses) I think I'll stick with the thesis that Paarfi/Sethra is honest and that someone else isn't always.