Sooo... Sethra is not *Vlad's* mother. Sethra was not Dolivar's lover. What if Sethra is *Dolivar's mother*? This might account for the feelings of affection for Vlad, the reason Sethra didn't "Hamstring the Yendi" Dolivar back in the early days, and would allow her to give a deep kiss to Vlad, since while she's not a genetic relation to him, she's still got some pretty serious attachment to the person that he is. The genetics for this also works out much better, although it might give Dolivar a "hint of Dzur" in the ancestry that was supposedly 100% Dragon. Majikjon