Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 02/01/06 12:24 PM To Dragaera List <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: the honing of Vlad >On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > >> Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> >> > >> >Is it not sufficient to posit that Verra couldn't make the exchange >> >in public for political reasons, and that the Halls are generally >> >semi-public? Hence the value slipping S the vial off-stage beforehand. >> >> There's also Kiera's comment in /Orca/ where she explains to Vlad that >> Verra didn't really know why he needed the vial in the first place. > >Not I think relevant - V could have whapped Her forehead and said, D'oh, >that's why I had that intuition, now I have to cut Myself again. This assumes that she would be able to come up with the idea that a blood transfusion to Morrolan would work. This possibiliy may simply not have occurred to her. She may not be as clever as Vlad was; he's pretty creative, after all. Majikjon