> > this point. If you haven't read Orca, skip on. > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * > > * [snip] > >Who enjoys Sethra's warm-despite-the-cold kiss for Vlad at Morrolan's > banquet > > That's an interesting catch. It puts me in mind of our first introduction > to Kiera in _Jhereg_. Vlad says something along the lines of "She gave me > a kiss hello and I gave as good as I got." The implication being that > while Vlad and Kiera aren't neccesarily slipping each other tongue, > they're on rather better than peck-on-the-cheek terms. I dunno. I've known guys who kiss their sisters/mothers on the lips; Vlad sometimes kisses Noish-pa. Whether or not it's actually peck-on-the-cheek with Kiera, it functions like one in terms of the emotion it expresses. (I mean, at scene you mention, he's still happily married to Cawti.) ---- Ok, I almost chimed in during the Great Weapon/marriage thread, but now feel compelled... While there has been nothing suggesting multiple wives/husbands that I can recall in the novels, there has at the same time been nothing saying that people can't or don't have multiple spouses. Even more so, even if they do so legally, that doesn't stop people from having multiple partners if they really want to, and they can be quite happy with all of them... And even from them being openly acknowledged by society (think back to Dangerous Liaisons if you will) But even if we're not postulating that Kiera/Sethra and Vlad are 'partners' that doesn't mean that they didn't a fling at some point prior to his meeting Cawti and that they still kiss like it... I'm sorry, but 'gave as good as I got' does not at all seem like 'peck on the cheek' to me. David