On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:51:43AM +0000, mtiller at ntlworld.com wrote: > > Aside from Vlad's implied belief that he is still around, do we have > any text ev that Mario survived the explosion and the interregnum? If we count email from Steve Brust to this list, yes. I believe that Steve has said explicitly here that Mario and Aliera have seen each other recently. Steve "deliberate ambiguities above" Simmons