[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoiler] [Orca Spoiler] Another terribly amusing Speculation

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 08:18 PM 9/11/2006, Jon Lincicum wrote:
>Philip Hart wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote:
> >
> >
> >>> Mercury
> >>> Venus
> >>> Earth
> >>> Mars
> >>> Ceres
> >>> Jupiter
> >>> Saturn
> >>> Uranus
> >>> Neptune
> >>> Pluto
> >>> Sedna
> >>> Xena
> >>> Minerva
> >>> Aphrodite
> >>> Loki
> >>> Bartelby
> >>> Azreal
> >>>
> >>>
> >> [...]
> >> Poor Vlad.  "Did the whole *world* know Mario before I met him?!?"
> >>
> >
> > Doesn't Kiera say something maybe snide about Mario at the end of _Orca_?
> > Approx. "I don't share Vlad's superstitious view of M"?
> >
> >
>Chapter 17 of Orca:
>
>[cite]
>
>He shook his head, "If it's Mario, there's no point in trying to run,
>and if it isn't, well, there isn't any other one person I'm particularly
>afraid of."
>
>I nodded. I felt the same way, except that I didn't have his
>superstitious dread of Mario.
>
>[end cite]
>
>It's interesting that this line comes just as Vlad has finally figured
>out who Kiera really is--and just before she figures out that he knows.

I thought it interesting that Mario evidently didn't feel that, as a 
loyal Jhereg, that he needed to off Vlad himself.


-- 
Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net