# the maids of contessa *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 27 Jun 2008* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Marc Aramini *27 Jun 2008, 08:11* all right, all the beheaded saints has convinced me that it is no coincidence and that there is some real beheading going on somewhere, like st. dorcas coming back from the dead. --- ### Dave Tallman *27 Jun 2008, 13:04 · in reply to Marc Aramini* We can also look with fresh eyes at the lines in the play that predict the Contessa's fate: Contessa: If my body held a part of yours -- drops of liquescent tissue locked in my loins... Meschia: If it did, you might wander Urth for a time longer, a lost thing that could never find its way home. But I will not bed you. Do you think you are more than a corpse? You are less. In other words, if the Contessa (Catherine) becomes pregnant with the seed of the New Sun, her life will be prolonged but she will never be able to return to her home (her own time). ---