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Ghost Story Book Club - Chapters 46-FINISH **MAJOR SPOILERS**
sluice:
Just finished Ghost Story, kind of jumping in here.
So was the "Parasite" Lash or the Walker? Lash wasn't really a parasite, she saved his life, helped him multiple times. The meaning of parasite would more be something that feeds off him without giving back.
I liked Fitz, hopefully he'll stay around. Daniel is exactly who he should be; his father was ripped to shreds, his sister is a (homeless?) semi-looney vigilante, but he still has the solid grounding his parents gave him. I liked him.
I just don't get the six month gap. Why six months? He gets shot, then he's in Chicago Between, six months later?
sluice:
Oh, and as an add on, I hope Harry learns the "super-speed" magic Aristedes used.
LogicMouseLives:
--- Quote from: sluice on August 13, 2011, 02:55:20 PM ---Oh, and as an add on, I hope Harry learns the "super-speed" magic Aristedes used.
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He shouldn't really need to. As the Winter Knight, as we saw a couple of times in Changes, he has access to enhanced speed, strength and toughness because of the mantle. He just needs to learn how to use them better.
Which will be lots of fun to watch!
LML
LogicMouseLives:
--- Quote from: JamesDB on August 11, 2011, 03:16:13 PM ---This is my first post. I just love the books.
I read this thread but I don’t know if this has been discussed elsewhere.
What are Harry’s obligations as Winter Knight when it comes to being consort? Can Mab and Mauve have their way with him whenever they want? Can he refuse? Mauve seemed awfully eager to have his child in summer night. Any chance that Mab could already be carrying his child from when they consummated Harry becoming the Winter Knight?
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Welcome, JamesDB!
Yeah, the first meeting between Harry the WK and Maeve should be very interesting. I hope we get to see it onscreen in Cold Days.
As for the possibility of Mab's being pregnant, that was speculated about quite a bit here after Changes came out. It seemed like a significant (although not guaranteed) possibility at the time. But given Mab's condition when we see her at the end of GS? It seems much less likely to me. She's clearly been extremely busy, and expending a hell of a lot of energy keeping Harry's body intact (plus whatever else she had to be doing at the same time...) and her physical condition was not one that would have been able to hide a pregnancy.
That's not to say that it's impossible. If Sidhe gestation is far longer than human, she could easily still not be showing, although a very early gamete is extra vulnerable to illness and poor health in the mother. Similarly, if Sidhe have extremely short pregnancies, she might already have given birth. (This possibility seems the most inconsistent and unlikely to me, but I thought I'd throw it in for completeness' sake.)
So I guess we'll have to wait and see. ::)
LML
xakko:
--- Quote from: LogicMouseLives on August 13, 2011, 04:29:02 PM ---That's not to say that it's impossible. If Sidhe gestation is far longer than human, she could easily still not be showing, although a very early gamete is extra vulnerable to illness and poor health in the mother. Similarly, if Sidhe have extremely short pregnancies, she might already have given birth. (This possibility seems the most inconsistent and unlikely to me, but I thought I'd throw it in for completeness' sake.)
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all I would say is time is malleable in the Nevernever - if Mab want to get a pregnancy over and done with, she could have. Heck, Maeve played with time back in Proven Guilty
my own take is that there is no pregnancy. I don't think Harry was physically there at the Stone Table, given that Butters was there to remove things like his shield bracelet whilst he was a'tapping that phat Sidhe ass.
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