At 01:00 AM 1/5/2006, Maximilian Wilson wrote: >On 1/4/06, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > > We know that Vlad *likes* Kiera, but do we have any clue on how much he > > *trusts* Kiera? At least before the events in /Orca/? (Or even after? ;-) ) > >The fact that she appears in /Orca/, i.e. that Vlad gave her his >location is spite of the Jhereg al-Hiraba against him, is telling. I >can't actually think of where she appears outside of /Jhereg/ except >for the scene in /Yendi/ where she's doing Sethra's dirty work; does >he mention her among the goodbyes at the end of /Phoenix/? I certainly >do get the impression that Vlad trusts her, for reasons he doesn't >entirely understand. Kiera, of course, hands Vlad the vial of a god's blood, which is put to such good use later on, in _Taltos_. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net