At 08:21 30/07/01 +0200, you wrote:
In Assassin, why are the two slavers who are holding Avon not surprised when he addresses "Sleer" as Servalan? And does this mean that she later kills them to keep their mouths shut? Or even kills all the slavers? And if the latter is the case, would she get a medal for it, or would the Federation elite be peeved about having lost its illegal slave market?
I've always more than half suspected that *everyone* in the Federation knew who Sleer really was, they were just humouring her. I expect that a memo got sent round, saying basically, 'Look, she's having fun, she's a useful genocidal maniac to have running the pac. prog., and being busy keeping her secret is stopping her having a pop at the new Pres. Let's all just go along with, shall we?'
Marian
love Anna