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When is a Story not a Story?
dspringer1:
Sometimes a short story is just a fun story the author wished to tell. And sometimes a short story is a sneaky way for the author to introduce factoids and back story that will become important in a later “main” story. For this thread, I am going to assume JB is being sneaky.
JB has written several short stories since Skin Game and I am guessing he is using these stories to lay some groundwork. This thread is devoted to guessing what those clues and factoids are. If I remember correctly, we have the following short stories
• Molly story where she travels to Alaska as Winter Lady
• Luccio story set in the wild west
• Butters story about a visit to the Zoo
While I have not yet read the last two, I have read the first. It introduced several interesting factoids
1) The Winter Lady Mantle protects winter secrets, forcing Molly to speak sexy banter instead of speaking plainly or revealing winter secrets
2) The Winter Lady cannot have intercourse – not clear if this is pregnancy or if she must remain a virgin (technically). The Mantle will protect this.
3) The WL is tasked, among other things, with ensuring the supply of Winter soldiers continues so that the outer gates are properly defended. As such she is in communication with many wild fae groups that have agreements with Winter.
4) Carlos’ area of responsibility is very wide if he covers LA to Alaska. That implies very few wardens in America.
5) Carlos was badly injured – and thus may not be present during Peace Talks.
6) Old gods keep trying to get back into our world (not a new factoid)
I can see #1 or #3 applying (potentially) to events in Peace Talks either in the sexualized banter Molly will surprise Harry with and/or the contacts Molly will have with attendees. Conceivably #2 could be a path to attack the winter lady as well, if the White or Red Court vamps were attacking her. #4 probably explains why there will be relatively few wardens at the peace talks.
Other hints and foreshadowing that might come from the short stories?
wardenferry419:
Jury Duty, also, takes place after Skin Game. Young Luccio acted very much like Harry does.
KurtinStGeorge:
Your wrong about Warden Ramirez. (click to show/hide)From the first chapter of Peace Talks we know Ramirez ... I'm not saying any more than that. I don't want to spoil anything for those who don't want to know more, but he's in the first chapter which means he's in the story.
Quantus:
Butter's story is about a mission to a hospital. The upcoming Harry/maggie story is the one about the Zoo (which might be happening more or less at the same time).
A few big detail take-aways from Day One with Butters:
(click to show/hide)-Michael more or less confirms that the Knights are guided/managed directly by TWG and not by Archangel intermediaries.
-If enough people Believe in something (children being particularly good fo this) it can Both a)create a new being from scratch, or b)come close enough that an existing NN creature can slip into the new image and use it as a foothold.
-TWG is not opposed to MMO's, despite how many Soul's they have devoured over the years... (:P)
dspringer1:
TWG? MMO? Not familiar with these abbreviations.
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