Robyn Hood,<br/><br/>Excellent post!   My husband was curiose about what I was grinning and snickering about, so I let him read the IC posts about the scene in Vin's office.<br/><br/>He said the basket of vipers is a very good metaphor - I agree - but that his emotional reactions was as if he was watching a fuse burn down on a keg of gunpowder while frantically searching for a way out of the room.  I told him black powder didn't exist in this world that I knew of, he  said that's why "basket of vipers was better.<br/><br/><br/>(edited for spelling, grrr0