> Kenneth Gorelick wrote on Mon, 04 Jul 2005 18:12:50 -0400 > > >Never made the connection before, but that means that Grita and > >Ibronka are half-sisters... > > Huh or heh? > > How do you figure? > > I do not think we know who Grita's mother is or was. > > Bye. > > Linda G. I nearly think I already covered this: http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi?1:msp:12461:gboeoafmfnfg fjeblbda 6. Is Grita Ibronka's (much) older sister? Consider the following: FHYA pg 66 - [Grita] was a product of the House of Dzur [and] the House of Tsalmoth. [She] was one of those unfortunates who, being the product of two houses, belong to none. FHYA pg 393 through 397 - Dunaan: You give orders to [Sennya, Dzur Heir and Ibronka's mother]? ... How can this be? Greycat: Does it matter? She'll do what she is told ... Dunaan: Yet, I cannot believe-- Greycat: Pah! It is easy to control a Dzurlord--no one is more sensitive to appearances; threaten to publicly shame one and he is yours. [...] Grita: I heard. Greycat: And? Grita: There are times when I am ashamed to know you. Greycat: How, you refer to my plan to appease the Jhereg? Grita: No. Greycat: Then you refer-- Grita: Yes. Greycat: I had not known you cared. Grita: I do not. Greycat: Well, then? Grita: Nevertheless, that you would use-- Greycat: I have not asked for your opinion. [...] Greycat: Then, I believe, there is nothing more to be said. Grita: On the contrary, there is a great deal to be said, but I do not believe we will say any of it. I have no wish to, at all events. Have you? [Greycat walks out on her.] FHYA pg 516 - "Who?" said Tazendra. "Who is your mother?" Grita did not speak. POTD pg 139 - "I have made many errors in my life," [Sennya] admitted to herself. "I have been foolish, and self-indulgent, and irresponsible, and even, on one occasion, weak. Yet I still have Ibronka ... Perhaps the gods have forgiven me my lapse, for they have graced me with a daughter for--well, the one who is lost. It must have been a gift of the gods, for ... I thought myself too old to have a child." Bryan