-----Original Message----- From: Casey Rousseau [mailto:casey at the-bat.net] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 11:07 AM To: dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: RE: duh! MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: > Ok, if you haven't read Orca, please do not read this unless > you want to ruin things for yourself... > > S > O > O > O > . > . > S > P > O > L > I > E > R > > Ok, I read _Orca_ three times now. On the very last page, > Kiera writes to Cawti saying it was nice to see her and Vlad > Norathar. WHAT?! During the "Interludes," I got that Cawti > was pregnant, or so I thought, and the first 2 times I read > the book, I though maybe it was a typo. Then I realized that > Norathar was not mentioned at all in the book. Then I > remembered the time. Vlad has been gone for about 2 years. > Unless Easterners have a long gestation, that baby is almost > 2 years old, depending on when Vlad knocked her up. They were > on the rocks, so when did they do stuff? Unless it was make > up sex and Vlad didn't feel like sharing. Anyway, I was > shocked when that realization dawned on me. Anyone els get > that when they read it? I always figured there was some sort of final rapprochement when Vlad handed over South Adrilankha to her before he took off at the end of Phoenix, but this is one of those times when Alexx's timeline(1) helps considerably. Alexx reminds us that Teckla and Phoenix are back to back stories with only a few weeks between them and they take 22 and 32 days respectively. Doing the conversion for longer days and shorter weeks, this would allow for Cawti to be as little as '13 weeks' pregnant when a distracted Vlad last sees her in Phoenix even if they last had an opportunity to conceive VN prior to the start of Teckla. Alexx dates the birth as 7-9 Terran months after Phoenix, which would be reasonable for the rapprochement scenario, but I'm wondering whether Cawti's behavior through the two books might be interpreted differently if I posit that she knew she was pregnant at some point in Teckla. ********* to throw a monkey with a wrench into the scenario Verra may have just decided one day that Cawti and Vlad needed a child so she took care of everything (including messing with the length of pregnancy)