On 2/1/06, Jon_Lincicum wrote: > Philip Hart wrote: > > >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. > Perhaps. Yet Vlad got the idea of the blood transfusion from Verra's remarks that at least part of being a god was in the blood (Indeed, citing specifically: "My blood is the blood of a god. It is for this reason that the Halls of judgment cannot hold me.") Although there is also Aliera's similar statement about her own blood, I see. Was Verra truly not hinting to Vlad the direction he should be thinking? Who can say?