[Dragaera] Another (minor) Jhegaala thought

[Alexx Kay]

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When Vlad is talking to the Count about how the Jhereg Assassin figured out
how to talk to Dahni, he suggests that he must have bribed one of the Count's
servants.  He then preemptively tells the Count not to bother figuring out
which servant as (paraphrasd, AFT) "If you paid them enough that they
couldn't be bribed, then they wouldn't be servants."

I can easily see Vlad having such an attitude.  But the Count has a pretty
strong sense of honor.  Not Morrolan-level, to be sure, but strong 
nonetheless.  Vlad bets his life on that sense of honor, successfully, and
depends upon it for the final execution of his plans.  (Granted, he
didn't exactly have many other options at that point...)  Someone like
that probably *does* care about which of his servants took a bribe, and
Vlad should know this (especially after the events of _Jhereg_).  Vlad's
statement might delay his investigating the matter, while he deals with more
urgent issues, but I wouldn't expect him to abandon it completely.

Given that I already see this book as a huge mishmash of lies and 
misdirection (see earlier post), I wonder if there was anything being
hidden here.  Is there something Vlad knows about the chain of information
that he doesn't want the Count to know until he has safely left town?
(And that he doesn't want the reader to know at all?)

Alexx


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