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Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on April 14, 2020, 01:02:38 AM ---Was not that exactly what she signed up for? Everything to save Maggie?
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Exactly... Well, Harry did ask her who could have tipped off the Red King about little Maggie? Which led her to ask Martin.
--- Quote ---"Martin," Susan said, her voice low and very quiet. "Did you tell them about Maggie?"
He closed his eyes, but his voice was steady. "Yes."
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Then she ripped his throat out.. So I guess you could call that manipulation, but I don't think
if there was anything immoral about it, since it was the only play left that could save their child.
--- Quote --- I knew how angry she was. I knew how afraid she was. Her child was about to die only inches beyond her reach, and what I did to her was as good as murder.
I focused my thoughts and sent them to Susan. Susan! Think! Who knew who the baby's father was? Who could have told them?
Her lips peeled away from her teeth.
His knife can't hurt you, I thought, though I knew damned well that no faerie magic could lithely ignore the touch of steel.
Harry lied when Susan didn't immediately do what Harry wanted her to do. It was a d*ck move. I would have done the same thing in his shoes.
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He had already asked the fatal question, her lips had already peeled away from her teeth.. What he said about the knife made no difference.. Actually he was only repeating what Lea had more or less told her when she did her little bullet demo.. If he had said it to get her to strike, it would have been a dick move.. But he didn't.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: Mira on April 14, 2020, 04:39:51 AM --- Exactly... Well, Harry did ask her who could have tipped off the Red King about little Maggie? Which led her to ask Martin.
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I mean before that. From the beginning of the book when they met and with all their interactions. She made it quite clear what she considered important and she choose to trust Harry with it.
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on April 13, 2020, 09:12:38 PM --- The existence of thousand yard head shot, or a Predator drone and a Hellfire missile would seem to say that jurisdiction is a function of how bad you want Harry dead. Ask the CIA. ;)
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(a) Do you want it bad enough to violate the Accords, with an unsactioned murder?
(b) Do you want it bad enough to give personal offense to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Winter's Liege, Mab... by asserting your jurisdiction over her Knight?
I believe the WC answers would be (a) "probably not," and (b) "oh FUCKING HELL NO."
g33k:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on April 13, 2020, 09:14:33 PM --- @g33k: Jim has said that Mab would leave Harry to deal with the White Council if Harry violated the Laws of Magic and came after him.
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Huh; that's surprising to me!
But TYVM.
Still -- does the Senior Council know Mab well enough to make that call? I doubt she would just say it to them straightforwardly... or even hint strongly enough they'd understand.
Unless she WANTED the Harry-vs-WC conflict, of course... in which case, she'd probably "hint strongly enough they'd (mis)understand" proactively, even if Harry hadn't done anything.
Arjan:
--- Quote from: g33k on April 14, 2020, 06:38:53 AM ---Huh; that's surprising to me!
But TYVM.
Still -- does the Senior Council know Mab well enough to make that call? I doubt she would just say it to them straightforwardly... or even hint strongly enough they'd understand.
Unless she WANTED the Harry-vs-WC conflict, of course... in which case, she'd probably "hint strongly enough they'd (mis)understand" proactively, even if Harry hadn't done anything.
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Mab does not protect you from your own stupidity and certainly not if you break your obligations to other people.
Harry is a white council member and these are his laws. Mab does not want Harry to break them.
But if the white council piles up on Harry without a good reason that would probably be different.
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