Scott Schultz wrote: > Here's the entire passage (courtesy of Drageara book search): > "I was there, Vlad, when Kieron was backed into a corner by an ex-Dragon > named Dolivar, who had been Kieron's brother before he shamed himself and > the whole tribe. Dolivar was tortured and expelled. I share the guilt there, > too, as does Sethra. Sethra was supposed to hamstring the yendi, but she > missed-deliberately. I saw, but I didn't say anything. Perhaps that makes me > responsible for my brother's death, later. I don't know..." Well, one cannot hamstring a yendi (the animal), in a literal sense, as they have no legs. The sentence can be taken different ways, but I always thought it was a slight against whomever she was talking about. Like calling a Dragon a teckla. But it's Steve, so who knows. ;) Chris