On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 MedCat7 at aol.com wrote: @> >Do we know for certain that it is Vlad's child? She could just like the @> >name. @> @> You know, we've been thinking on the same wave length. Must be a New @> England thing. Hmm. I'm in Boston and I haven't considered this. @> I didn't want to be the one to say it might not be Vlad's. On @> speculation, who do we think it could be? It's possible that it's not, clearly. On the other hand, it would be... slightly unbalanced of Cawti to name that kid Vlad under other circumstances. (Imagine having this conversation with someone: "I'd like to name the kid after my ex-husband.") Further, remember Noish-pa's prophecy about holding Vlad's kid in his arms; obviously there could be /another/ kid, but then we're just heading real deep into soap terrain. I'd buy it if it were a Paarfi novel, but in the main Vlad storyline? Eh.