[Dragaera] [Dzur spoiler] Possible crack in the orb

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 8/11/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote:
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> >I read that as VLAD making a joke.
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> Hmmm... Now that you mention it, I believe you're right. How did I miss
> this subtlety the first time? (Oh yeah, I was rushing to get through to
> the next part of the book to see what happened... :-) )

It's still an odd response from Kragar, though. "One for you, Vlad,"
as if Vlad had scored some sort of point by observing that Aliera
didn't like him. Imagine a similar interchange:

"A certain assassin introduced us."
"An assassin? Kiera's never killed anybody that I know of."
He chuckled. "One for you, Vlad."

You see, if Vlad's wrong about the identity of the mutual friend, then
the joke's irrelevant instead of funny, no matter what Vlad says about
the person in question, and Kragar can only be chuckling to be polite.
As I said, odd.

-Maximilian

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