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Motivation for fixing Little Chicago?
morriswalters:
@kbrizzle
I'll show you my thinking. For this story arc Mab has been under constant attack since Grave Peril. First Lea is subverted in Grave Peril and then she goes to war with Summer because Aurora has gone mad. The important point in Dead Beat is the discovery by Mab that Lea is subverted. At this point she now knows two things without doubt. Nemesis has infiltrated both Summer and Winter. This is my reasoning for Winter moving to the border after the attack in Dead Beat.
She knows that Thorned Namshiel led the attack. What she doesn't know is who is behind it. If she goes to war with the Reds and Nemesis can manipulate Summer then she can be defeated, since as you note two of her powerful agents are down. So she turns to the greater possible threat, Summer. The attack on Arctis Tor was never meant to be anything other than an distraction, designed to keep Mab out of the fray while the Reds and the Black Council move.
This will continue to one degree or another until the events of Changes. And she will use Harry as a stalking horse in the interim. Something you might give some thought to is why Arctis Tor is empty. If the attack has just occurred then the forces of Winter should be moving to Arctis Tor as they do when Harry throws Summer fire. If the attack happened any time before why hasn't Winter cleaned up the mess and why has it been left unguarded by anyone other than the fetches?
As to why the BC would use the theater, you assume that someone on the BC set up the conditions for the portal. But the one time we have seen that done it was with the coordination of the person on the other side, in Skin Games Hades and Marcone set it up.
Anyway this has been fun.
kbrizzle:
@morriswalters
It has been fun! It’s forced me to really re-examine the premises of my WAGs about PG. The one thing I’ll point out in your argument is that after Aurora (& most of her retinue) have been killed in SK, there is no reason to think that Summer is still Nfected (unless Maeve has been lying to Mab about it).
Agreed - why Arctis Tor is empty when Harry gets there is a puzzle. If the attack happened a year ago, why does Mab’s stronghold (& the Wellspring) lie open for anyone to enter for such a long period? Or, if the attack happened a few days ago, why haven’t Winter forces come back to protect the Wellspring sooner?
I’m sure we both have our theories & we’ll hopefully find out one way or the other in MM. Perhaps the answer simply lies in the fact that there is a general imbalance in the Fae courts (skewed towards Summer) prior to Harry assuming the WK mantle.
Snark Knight:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on May 13, 2019, 11:40:38 AM ---It's like a murder investigation. Who has means , motive and opportunity? Since Harry was keeping LC under wraps before first use, who could have known of it existence in the present? That list is small. Maybe Mab and/or the Gatekeeper. It's never explained implicitly, but Mab has some means of seeing what happens in Chicago. She reproduces a past event in Chicago, in full animation, in Small Favor. And the Gatekeeper has showed the ability to find Harry wherever he might be. He does it in Summer Knight and Turncoat. However the ability to be able to do so removes the need to use LC, since she/they seem to already have a more powerful tool that does the same thing.
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Not necessarily. Little Chicago might have been capable of working in some niche way that Rashid's surveillance abilities don't. Or if it was Mab using it to snoop on Maeve to realize she was Nemfected, there are a couple reasons her own means might not have been able to see what she needed.
One, Sidhe power is highly seasonal. Just because she could monitor most of Marcone's kidnapping in the middle of a snowstorm in Small Favor doesn't mean she'd have been able to get a similar level of detail in the summer heat wave that was going on in PG. Two, assuming she was watching Maeve, one Winter queen snooping on another with Winter power might be hard to do unnoticed. Little Chicago might be a lesser spy tool overall that Mab's own, but also harder for Maeve to detect. Or three, Maeve might have a lesser version of Mab's defense against other immortals like Anduriel snooping - another version of why a lesser overall tool might be better for the purpose by way of being made by a mortal.
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