Louis Eastman wrote: > I stubbornly hope it is Verra, smarmy bitch that she is. _Issola_ implies so. Sethra speaks of the abilities of the Gods, and the one ability they have that the Jenoine don't is to appear in two places at once. The other abilities the gods *do* have (and, we're then led to believe, the Jenoine have as well) include seeing bits of the future. That implies a reason why they picked Vlad -- they had an image of a possible future of Vlad going after his, uhm, God mother. Ray -- Every truth has a context.