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SintraEdrien:
So, WoJ has it that Mab is "clearing her debts", balancing her scales and paying back favors to get free from obligations.

What happens if there is a tiny favor that she owes to a mortal who then dies before repayment?
How could this be? I am positing a mortal human who: is an only child, whose parents are deceased, whose grandparents are deceased, who has no aunts/uncles (never existed or deceased without issue), who has died without essentially any other living family.

His material estate would (usually) be escheated to whichever unit of government of his residence/locality/citizenship handles such things, but what about a favor owed by Mab? If he had had descendents, I think the favor would be passed down as part of the bloodline "inheritance", as it were, the same way that the favor owed by Thomas to Cat Sith is still owed to whichever entity becomes the new Cat Sith, but where does the the favor owed to a deceased childless mortal go? Mab is still bound to pay it back somehow!

Snark Knight:
Even if the nearest blood relation is so far that mortal inheritance law has lost track of them, there has to be someone. A 12'th cousin twice removed, or something.

Given the importance of favours to the Fae, I would expect they (all of them, not just the Queens) have a limited form of intellectus covering who they owe favours to. Sort of like how they just know the laws of their court instinctually.

Talby16:
I don't have the answer (this would make a great convention question for Jim), but I think there has to be some mechanism of clearing the debt. Obligation is a part of the Fae's nature. I'm sure a way has been worked out to cover this potential scenario.

wardenferry419:
Me neither, this sounds like one of the difficult and nearly inpossible scenerios.

Rasins:
Don't forget the transfer of debt, like how Harry gave his owed favor to Charity in PG.

If Mab owes something and CAN'T repay it, it's possible for someone else to take on that debt.

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