"Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 01/05/06 08:56 AM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: How much does Vlad *really* know about Kragar? >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_. Okay, I will concede that there is ample evidence to support the conclusion that Vlad trusts Kiera. (To a point seemingly beyond that which is wise to do so, it would seem.) And in retrospect, if Vlad didn't trust Kiera, she wouldn't be a reliable source of information on Kragar in the first place, so I guess that observation was ultimately self-defeating anyway. Majikjon