> >>Now, Kiera's interest in Vlad is interesting, but I don't think we > >>have any evidence of a reason for it at all, just some suppositions > >>based on other things we have learned about Vlad. > >> > > > >She did lend Vlad something once that seems to be beyond the interests > >of a normal thief. > > At the explicit request of Verra, who, herself, didn't know why it was > important that he have it. > > Which itself is interesting, in regards to a question I posed earlier, > as it seems to indicate that the Dragaeran gods *do* indeed have some > precognative abilities, but also implies that they are not always > conciously aware of what they mean. She's not dumb. Minimally, she just found out that Vlad is "interesting". She's also someone who prepares for eventualities - Kiera is very thorough with her thieving plans, for instance. It is interesting to note Vlad's observations about how Sethra was angered by some of his statements - what he observed then might be considerably different from what he would have observed with hindsight from book 17 or 18.