Scott Schultz wrote on Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:31:32 -0800 on the idea of there being two Zerika trips into the Paths of the Dead. >Basically, Zerika would be no more welcome in the Paths than any other >living Dragaeran. Orb or no orb, if she came back they'd force her to stay. >Whatever the explanation for Morollan's lies/mental lapses I don't think >that conjuring up a second "secret" trip is the answer. Hmmm, "The Sorceress in Green chuckled. 'Now there's a pretty riddle,' she said. 'I shall be curious to learn how you solve it. We cannot enter the Paths unless we have the Orb, and we cannot get the Orb unless we enter the Paths.' " The Paths of the Dead, paperback, Chapter the Nineteenth, page 197-198. I wonder why the Sorceress in Green says this? What does she know that we do not? Of course, she is wrong about the Orb being necessary to enter the Paths, as Sethra explains: "'Pah, there is nothing to prevent a living man from entering the Paths of the Dead.' 'There is not?' 'No, provided he is able to survive the descent of the Falls, and the hazards of the Paths themselves, and avoid becoming lost.' 'As I said,' said the Sorceress. 'Well, but most of the hazards of the Paths will have no effect on a living man. And the descent can be managed in many ways. Indeed, some believe that the Falls will refuse to take a life, so that one cannot drown in the Blood River even if one wishes to.'" I just wonder if the Sorceress in Green knows of some Emperor or Empress in the past using the Orb to enter and exit the Paths. Happy Easter. Linda G.