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Lea and the Adversary
morriswalters:
While fact checking a post elsewhere, I reread an exchange between Harry and Lea prior to her showing him the Stone Table in Summer Knight. Here is the exchange.
--- Quote from: Summer Knight ---Lea completed her circuit of the table and stopped beside me. She glanced furtively around her, then looked me in the eyes and said, her voice barely audible, "Child. Should you survive this conflict, do not let Mab bring you here. Never."
--- End quote ---
This is foreshadowing of Mab wanting Harry to become the Winter Knight. But while Lea's debt to Margaret would explain why she makes him aware of the Stone Table and its purpose. It does not explain why she would or could, warn him against Mab's plan. And she fears Mab knowing that she has done so. In this exchange in Changes we will see that Mab is now aware the Lea warned him. Because Lea says I told you so in Mab's presence.
--- Quote from: Changes ---“I warned you,” said a calm voice behind me. “Never let her bring you here, my godchild.”
--- End quote ---
Mab's lack of response tells us that Mab knows and Lea is no long afraid that she does. Lea then tells Harry that Mab is angry and Mab punishes her for doing so, by slashing her face.
--- Quote from: Changes ---My godmother bowed her head to Mab, and the cold voice came from her mouth again. “It is not for my handmaiden to judge or question me, nor to speak for me upon her own account.”
--- End quote ---
So returning now to Summer Knight with this context, I'm calling this Lea's downfall. We see everybody in the battle for the Stone Table but Lea. And in a fight for power she should have been there. I think this is when Lea is revealed to Mab as Nemfected.
Opinions? I may be reading too much into this.
123Chikadee:
I dunno, I think you're onto something. Jim does play the long game in terms of foreshadowing.
Maybe after being nemfected, Lea had some personality changes, and she isn't as afraid of Mab after all that as happened.
Maybe Margaret and Mab's long term plans for Harry are at cross-purposes? Ok, so yeah, that's probably true already, at face value but still it could run even deeper than that.
Arjan:
--- Quote ---"Shame, child, is for those who fail to live up to the ideal of what they believe they should be." She waved her hand. "It was shame that drove me to my queen, to beseech her aid." Her long, delicate fingers idly moved to the streaks of white in her otherwise flawless red tresses.
"But she showed me the way back to myself, through exquisite pain, and now I am here to watch over my dear godson--and the rest of you, as long as it is quite convenient."
--- End quote ---
Lea tried to fight the infection herself, she tried to stay herself, she tried to preserve her nature but was failing and recognised it. So she went to Mab, she turned herself in. This is confirmed in Proven Guilty where we see a Lea battling with herself telling Harry it is not yet safe to free her.
There she talks about the infection:
--- Quote ---Some of the strength seemed to ebb from her, and she suddenly seemed exhausted. “I grew too arrogant with the power I held. I thought I could overcome
--- Quote ---what stalks us all
--- End quote ---
. Foolish. Milady Queen Mab taught me the error of my ways.”
--- End quote ---
Both are references to Nemesis, a sspiritual infection. It came with the power of the knife.
morriswalters:
I know she is Nemfected. What I'm trying to establish is how long she was off the leash before Mab put her in the deep freeze.
edit restated the point.
Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on January 12, 2019, 04:13:51 AM ---I know she is Nemfected. What I'm trying to establish is how long she was off the leash before Mab put her in the deep freeze.
edit restated the point.
--- End quote ---
I had written a thread about this myself maybe a couple of years ago when I began to reread the series. Knowing what we know now, it does sound like Lea was infected before she got the Knife.
Now she may have been unaware that she was infected and was being used by the Enemy.. One of the clues that she was was her seeming ambition and opposition to Mab.. Notice after her stay in the deep freeze both her ambition and her opposition disappear.
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