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[CD spoilers] Small Favor
raidem:
I'd argue though that Titania wants to give payback to the outsiders for corrupting her Aurora. I'm sure she isn't over those emotions and is waiting for opportune time for payback. And, it can't be Harry who she is helping, someone else yes but not Harry directly. She seems quite final on that. Hmm.
I wonder if it would be possible to change the circumstance of Aurora's death to not be with the use of iron blades. Would that temper Titania's angst? Also, I hope Harry does something special for Titania. I feel sorry for her.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: IndeedProceed on December 16, 2012, 09:40:35 PM ---The whole thing with Titania and Summer in Small Favor just misses the mark for me. Titania is a mirror of Mab, she ought to be aware that the abduction of one party of the accords by another party of the accords is not something that can be allowed to happen without retaliation by any of them.
So not only does Summer fail to aid the efforts to punish the Denarians, she actively opposes those efforts and impedes them and nearly kills the one guy trying to set it right in the process.
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But that's not what she's actually doing, I would contend.
Mab can't directly coerce Harry to do any particular task - she gave her word on that point in SK. Titania sending hunters after Harry is doing that coercion for Mab. As for the degree of danger she's actually putting Harry in; anybody looking at Harry's record prior to SmF will correctly conclude that lesser gruffs have no real chance to succeed against him - and Eldest clearly has not been given orders that lock him down to killing Harry rather than leading Harry to the loophole that saves him, which to my mind is clearly deliberate.
IndeedProceed:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on December 17, 2012, 04:07:26 PM ---But that's not what she's actually doing, I would contend.
Mab can't directly coerce Harry to do any particular task - she gave her word on that point in SK. Titania sending hunters after Harry is doing that coercion for Mab. As for the degree of danger she's actually putting Harry in; anybody looking at Harry's record prior to SmF will correctly conclude that lesser gruffs have no real chance to succeed against him - and Eldest clearly has not been given orders that lock him down to killing Harry rather than leading Harry to the loophole that saves him, which to my mind is clearly deliberate.
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So you're contending that Titania sent gruffs to menace Harry and the carpenters (with clear orders to kill and maim), to kill Harry with automatic weapons, forcing him to jump off a roof to get away, and to send a gigantic giant-sized gruff who very nearly killed him in multiple instances within their kerfuffle, and then she continued to menace him by sending a Gruff who was a heavy hitter even after Ivy and Marcone had be rescued, with the idea that the heavy hitter gruff would lure Harry into uncovering a loophole Harry had never considered previous to the conversation with the Eldest Gruff, and Titania did all thise to make Harry do Mab's thing harder? (TWSS)
Just seems like the Rube Goldberg machine of plot devices.
knnn:
From Summer Knight (emphasis mine):
--- Quote ---"Thank God she's not too arrogant or anything," Billy muttered. "It seems to me that Mab is going to be handed a huge advantage in this. Why didn't Aurora just work together with Mab?"
"It probably never occurred to her to try it that way. She's Summer. Mab is Winter. The two don't work together."
"Small favors," Billy said. "So what do we do to help?"
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Clue?
Elegast:
--- Quote from: knnn on December 17, 2012, 04:21:24 PM ---From Summer Knight (emphasis mine):
Clue?
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Awesome quote. :)
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