Steve, One word: BEAUTIFUL. If anyone hasn't read it, it's from the latest Thieves' World book. I highly recommend it--for Steve's story, if for nothing else. (Though there are some really good stories in there, Steve pulled a Gaimain and set the bar damn high. At least the editor didn't put his first, like Gaimain's "A Study in Emerald" in _Shadows Over Baker Street_.) Go, Steve! Impressed as usual, ChrisO "Blind man's night is music to the deaf, and everyone has *two* paths, not one, whence comes tragedy and comedy, forsooth and damn straight, son." - "The Gypsy" - Brust & Lindholm