On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:20:31 -0800 (PST), Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Not considering that Sethra and the empress know about Laszlo (to >> > put it mildly). >> > Jerry Friedman apologizes if someone's said that already. >> >> Why not? > Since they know that Laszlo has lived at least a couple of centuries, > they might expect that Vlad could do the same. In other words, we > have no certain information on what Vlad's expected lifespan is. We know one Dragaeran who has been around hundreds of thousands of years. Finding an example of an Easterner living a couple of centuries (which isn't thought of as a long time by Dragaerans) doesn't remove that question. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/