On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Howard Brazee wrote: @> > She isn't his wife anymore by this point, remember. We're not exactly @> > given a complete rundown of matrimonial customs on Dragaera amongst @> > humans, but their relationship is clearly over after Phoenix. It may be @> > that they'll have some other kind of relationship in the future, but on @> > the other hand, maybe not. @> @> I see no reason to assume anything about the state of their marriage. I do. Vlad as much as says at the end of Phoenix that whatever he and Cawti had, they don't have it anymore. And then he goes into the woods for a couple of years. So there may be some legal things to tie up, assuming their marriage had any kind of legal blessing to begin with, but I can't see a reasonable interpretation of that text that doesn't indicate that their marriage is over.