I keep hoping with everything new that I read that von Namtzen will make another appearance. He's easily one of my other favorites (right up there with Fergus — apparently I'm pulling for the side characters these days). I loved their angle so much in Succubus and Brotherhood of the Blade. I cried, not gonna lie.

ALSO! Here's hoping I'll be able to go to your book signing when you come up to San Francisco on the 28th of September.

This got kind of long winded; sorry for gushing! <3

["The snake is a phallic symbol?"]

Well, it can be. [g] In terms of African _loa_ religions, though, the snake is usually considered a symbol of wisdom and divination.

–Diana

You've got me squirming thinking about being eaten in my sleep. Your writing is not for the skittish. smile.

The snake is a phallic symbol?

Oddly enough, I found that bit (cockroaches eating eyebrows) in the Reader's Digest version of a biography of Robert Louis Stevenson's wife (read many, many years ago) in which she noted the giant Samoan cockroaches that fed on her eyebrows when she fell asleep.

My general thought would be that the cockroaches were probably foraging for salt from sweat that accumulates there, rather than actually eating the hairs–but someone waking up with a cockroach on their face probably wouldn't wait to see.

–Diana

No, they really did. Apparently, the technique at the time was to brush your hair with _both_ hands at once. [g]

–Diana