--- Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> wrote: > > Note that being asleep would lead one to have one's head on the ground, > > which would be of signal use in noticing an impending group of horses. > > You'd still have to have awful good hearing for that to work from > 10-20 miles away. :) Also, there are scads of different systems of measurement used in the Empire. (See http://cracksandshards.com/how-long.html#Measurements.) These "miles" could be a lot shorter than the miles we're used to. Somewhere in The Phoenix Guards there is a comparison of how long a "league" is in different parts of the Empire. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html