"The story shifted to another book!"

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My roommate, who loves Mercedes Lackey as much as I do, has checked out her first book, Arrows of the Queen. She starts laughing and said something. Now, she was in the other room, so she came in. "I was listening and suddenly she talking about Vanyel and his sacrifice." Or close to that. Maybe I've read it more recently than she has... she would've been going on 14 when the book was published. I really kind of doubt she read it right after it was published, she was in some 'back water' type place. I didn't read it before the early/mid 1990s when my friend, Elaine, introduced me to her books. I have had the pleasure of meeting her 2 or 3 times. I kind of doubt I read it more recently than she has. However, there are things that make an impression on me in writing, something I do that she does not. "Right at the beginning?" she nodded. "She, Talia, was reading a book about Vanyel right at the beginning of the book." She stopped. She looked at me, eyes wide. "Your right! I had forgotten that." I laughed. "And, don't ya know, she then had to write the story about what she was reading in the beginning of the story." Actually, she writes trilogies. So, after the "Arrows" trilogy, she then had to write the 'Last Herald Mage" trilogy. Now, I'm sure she tried to find a way to write a trilogy about the Exile, but only got two books, Exile's Honor and Exile's Valor. So, I solved her mystery...