[Dragaera] A passing comment of Sethra's

[Scott Crain]

Vlad did NOT react as a Jhereg would be expected to act; he reacted almost as a Dragon would, which of course threw her off her normally excellent game.  Kragar, if he'd even gone there, would have eyed the dead guy, then Sethra Lavode, and said, "Okay, what've you got in mind?"  

The typical scene for the Dzur hero riding up the Mountain to destroy the Sorceress is, apparently, 'Sethra standing in the open to meet the Dzur hero riding up to destroy her, Iceflame alive in her hand...'  This is paraphrased, but is a pretty clear image pulled from one of the Cycle books.

As for provoking Aliera on the one hand and virtually belittling Morrolan on the other:

Aliera was asking for it, was getting pugnacious, and damn near shoved herself in Sethra's face.  While Sethra may have given her the verbal equivalent of a pat on the head and then on the bottom and saying 'that's nice, dear, go play in the kiddie pool', it's just about what any adult would do to a precocious, flouncy 'too beautiful for words' Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, who shows every public sign of not having the brains the Lords of Judgement gave a norska.

Morrolan did virtually the same thing -- charged up Dzur Mountain and demanded his proper tribute, at which point Sethra turned her head away from the Very Important Project she was working on and said, "Go away, kid, y' bother me..."  It took Tukko to nudge her and remind her of 'oh yeah, that Great Weapon we have stashed in the Third Lower West Wing sub-basement Mystic Item Of Great Import store-room ...'  So she thinks about it, and nods, and figures, 'hey, he fits the profile, why not try it out'.  Then turns back and continues to concentrate on the job of keeping the Jenoine out.  I figure that earns her a bit of leeway on Morrolan's part.

Otherwise, she's generally shown courtesy according to the traditions of the House of the person she's dealing with.  Hell, she even formally invited Lady Teldra to dinner, which formal invitation would have been necessary to the Issola...



S. Thomas Crain
Author-in-Training
       
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