--- Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: . . . . . . . . . . . > >They were on the rocks, so when did they do stuff? Unless it was make > >up sex and Vlad didn't feel like sharing. That's my guess. > > Anyway, I was shocked when that > realization > >dawned on me. Anyone els get that when they read it? I liked Kiera's comments about the iron will of his mother and the good looks of his father. The first may be a hint to Cawti to be more flexible, say if Vlad ever comes back, and the second is a new light on Vlad. > I think it's fair to assume that Vlad tells us just about the events > relevant to the story at-hand. In any case, the events of Tekla happen > in a > relatively short span of time. Cawti probably didn't have a local > Walgreens > to buy an E.P.T. at. It's not a huge stretch for her to have been > impregnated shortly before the book opens, when they were still on civil > terms with each other, and not realized it yet. Good point. > One thing this can let us speculate about, though, is when Cawti knew > she > was pregnant. The E.P.T. joke aside, that's exactly the sort of thing > that a > witch would be paid to tell a person. Cawti is nowhere near as adept as > Vlad, but I'd imagine she's dabbled in witchcraft. I'd be surprised if > she > hadn't picked up enough of the craft, simply by virtue of helping Vlad > out, > to know she was pregnant. Certainly, if she suspected she'd be likely to > hire a witch to find out for certain. Whether she'd tell Vlad what she > learned would be a different matter, given the storyline in Tekla. Don't we know that Cawti is a witch? She helps Vlad find Mellar in _Jhereg_, right? Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250