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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">Lee Berman</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><BR>> Then there is Agia. There are a couple converging lines of
evidence that<BR>> she is Severian's cousin.</DIV>
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<DIV>What evidence?</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> > Gerry Quinn: Jolenta is a waitress not a witch.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>> Jolenta is an actress. We don't know her name when she was a waitress.
The<BR>> thin girl with straggling hair had only been a waitress for about a
month <BR>> and she recognizes Severian as a carnifex. Is there any evidence
she had <BR>> not previously been a witch but left her guild in symmetry with
Severian's<BR>> story? If not she is a viable candidate for Severa.</DIV>
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<DIV>The waitress wasn’t an actress (two statements of hers indicate it) and
there’s no indication that she hadn’t worked elsewhere as a waitress before her
current employment. However, I think you have inadvertently hit on
something that indicates she was never a witch.</DIV>
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<DIV>Palaemon: “Nowhere but in Nessus - nowhere but here in the Citadel - is
there a chapter of our guild. Lesser places have no more than a carnifex.”</DIV>
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<DIV>Severian is still wearing what he wore as a journeyman of the Torturers
Guild. A witch would recognise him as a torturer. Jolenta calls him
a carnifex, the name used for an executioner/torturer everywhere else.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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