omg - after trying and trying to figure out how to pronounce Slraep and what the meaning was, I just FInally got it. doh (smack head with hand). I guess I do my best thinking late at night. Congrats on the pearls!!
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it. This is knowledge. But I don't know. Ya know?
You know Saul Bellow said that a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. That may well be the case in this affair.
Tonight we will drink to Slraep... And her smiting skills. Twice. Once for Vlad and once for the education that you have provided. We should take advantage of denuded heresies.
Then I wouldn't venture as to the cause of the reaction. I thought them to be smitten. But now I fear it was pride. Or perhaps it was both. Vlad hasn't raised his head.