Hi everyone - I'm a newcomer here, so I should really borrow some of Slave's humility for my first few postings, but......

No, not that, anything but that!

Do we really believe Servalan thinks about this stuff much ? She's cunning, politically aware, has a certain amount of tactical deviousness/cleverness etc, but does she ever think of anything which doesn't directly affect her ?

Valid question. However, her skills seem to be primarily political (as opposed to military), and that general equates to an awareness of historical trends, and an ability to at be persuasive while dealing with other intelligent and educated people. To me, that suggests she would have reasonable sounding philosophic and theoretic arguements to back up suggestions. If you look at it that way, it does directly affect her. It also means she might not be that interested in the ultimate truth, but merely the studies, etc, that validate her viewpoint.

Welcome to the Lyst, Guy.

Helen