1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >Will VN be a 4-year old revolutionary? I'm not sure it's possible for a child that young to have any grasp of the sorts of complex social issues that Cawti was wrestling with. I'd think parroting slogans would be about the extent of his awareness, and that only if Cawti exposes him to them. I wonder if she's still living in the upscale part of town or if she moved into South Adrilankha? Kind of hard to be a revolutionary if you're one of the bourgois. >Will he be living in Szurke with Noish-pa? Granted that Cawti doesn't appear to have any family of her own, the only reason for him to be living with Noish-pa would be that it's unsafe for him in Adrilankha. I can't see her dumping him because she has no time for him. Kiera's letter to Cawti in the closing chapter of _Orca_ doesn't seem indicative of Cawti living one place and Jr. living in different place. >Will he be showing any unusual signs due to his parentage/ancestry? Like a proclivity for flipping knives? ;-) >Will he already be a witch? Unlikely. Noish-pa never traveled much when he lived in Adrilankha. It doesn't seem like he'd move out of Szurke once he established himself there. Of course, he may have moved back to Adrilankha. There wouldn't seem to be anyone else around to train Jr. Cawti has some skill as a witch, but she seems to have primarily practiced it in the role as Vlad's "coven" rather than spending much effort doing it on her own. We might find out differently if any of the stories ever centered around her, of course. In any case, Vlad was about age 10, as I recall, when he began training as a witch. Generalizing from a single example we could assume that's the typical age for beginning such training. >What will he think of Loiosh? What do small children ever think of animals, especially those intelligent enough to play with them? I'd expect Loiosh's snake-like qualities to frighten him for about ten seconds, as long he's never had an unpleasant experience with one of the wild jhereg that hang around Adrilankha. >What will Loiosh think of him? Good question. Probably just about the same as he thinks of Cawti or any of Vlad's close friends, with the caveat that the child would be more annoying due to the various sorts of accidental mistreatment that children perform on their pets, and Loiosh would probably think it beneath him to act like a pet. If Jr. didn't attempt to dismantle him, then I'd expect him to feel the same sorts of parental protectiveness that Vlad would. >Will Vlad relate his recent experiences with Savn to his own son? Given Savn's condition, I'm having a hard time imagining how it would relate, except that Vlad might have learned to have a bit more patience than otherwise. >Will the Jhereg be trying to get at VN in order to get at Vlad? No, I don't think so. Firstly, Jr. is completely innocent. Cawti became a target because she was directly involved with Kelly's people and continued to be a rabble-rouser despite several clear warnings. Secondly, I have to think that some clear-thinkers on the Council must realize that the whole business of Vlad's betrayal was caused because the rule about attacking someone's family was broken, in a sense. The actual "rule" applies to targets of assassination, but the end result of _Phoenix_ illustrates why the rule exists at all. Endangering Jr. would be like mailing an open invitation for Vlad to attempt to slaughter the entire Council. To the left, given the apparent semi-autonomous nature of the Left Hand, I shouldn't be surprised if Vlad comes into direct conflict with them as result of something they do that endangers Cawti and/or Jr.