[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoiler] A terribly amusing Speculation

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[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoiler] A terribly amusing Speculation




>Spoiler space for /Dzur/
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>No
>sword
>could
>enter
>through
>her
>skin,
>Which
>vexed
>the
>knight
>and
>made
>her
>grin,
>Fa la la-n-fa,
>da-n-da da-n-fa,
>lanky down dilly.
>
>
>So, who would forget the current term to refer to the illegal business
>side of the Jhereg?

A few points I want to poke in your observation here:

It is not said outright that Mario is unfamilar with the phrase, it just 
makes him chuckle in a way that Vlad takes to mean he hasn't heard it 
before. He may have been grinning for a different reason than Vlad thinks, 
however. (Perhaps it simply brought back memories of his youth when he 
used to call them by the same name?)

Perhaps this particular phrase isn't common to all Jhereg in the first 
place--it's just the specific slang term that Vlad learned from his 
particular neighborhood Organization contacts while he was coming up in 
the business. It's possible (even likely) that each different neighborhood 
in Adrilankha has their own different derrogatory phrases for the group. 

>Who wouldn't have heard the phrase "Bitch Patrol"?

Again, there's no guarantee he hasn't heard the term. It is implied, 
that's all.

>Someone who's retired, that's who.

Well, perhaps semi-retired. But that's a long assumption to make on one 
small chuckle. 

>What if... Kragar was actually Mario's apprentice, and is the one who
>has been doing all of the recent "work" attributed to Mario?

Interesting hypothesis--but "work" has never seemed to be the kind of 
thing Kragar was interested in. Granted, we knew so little about him in 
the "good old days" that it was easy for him to hide the fact that he was 
fronting for Mario--which certainly makes it possible he's got even 
darker, deeper skeletons in his closet. But Vlad never comments on Kragar 
as someone who looks like he's done "work"... 

Add to this, the fact that Kragar's expulsion from the House of Dragon was 
apparently involuntary. This is likely not a man who has completely 
abandoned the principles of House Dragon... Which would seem to preclude 
becomming an assassin.

>Alternatively, perhaps Kragar and Mario are partners, only instead of
>"working" together, they alternate.  With Kragar handling being their
>public face.

I would think this would defeat the purpose of having a public face. If 
the public face might get caught doing a job, things would get 
interesting.

>And of course, this ties in as Yet Another Ideation about Kragar's
>House ejection.

The idea here being that Kragar got caught doing "work", and therefore got 
ejected from the House? Hmmm... Not sure I buy it. Doesn't really seem to 
jive with Kragar's attitude about his former House. (Although it might 
explain Aliera's disgust for him.)
Majikjon