"deal with her any more, so I cut the conversation short. She gave me a warm-despite-the-cold kiss on the cheek; she either knew or suspected, but wasn't talking. I exchanged pleasant smiles with …" What I understood from the scene was that, despite Sethra's lips being cold, her kiss was very friendly-thus, 'warm'. For some reason your reason seems kind of alien and stretched...I suppose you could make the connection, but the undead explanation seems to be more plausible. On 6/6/06, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: > > >I remember Vlad describing a kiss from Sethra as "warm-despite-the-cold." > >/Jhereg/, I think, in Morrolan's ballroom. > > This is more of an emotional reference than a reference to a physical > reference, I'd think. Sethra greets him warmly while the rest of the > guests > give him an understandably chilly reception. > > >>While The Necromancer clearly isn't in the > >>same category as Sethra ("That's how you die. That's how he dies. That's > how > >>she dies. It's all very personal.") > > >Is this a Vladian quote, or a TV reference to something else? It doesn't > ring a bell. > > Beetlejuice reference. It's the explanation given for why the afterlife > isn't quite what the main characters of the movie expected it to be. > > >I wonder how Vlad feels today about the day he "gave as good as I got"? > > That would require a spoiler warning, but if you review the "council of > war" > in _Jhereg_ you should see what I was referring to. > > > >