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Why, Thomas, Why? (Peace Talks Spoilers)
Vairelome:
But none of that is relevant to the fundamentals of Thomas and Justine's relationship. Yes, at one time, Justine was protected from Raiths by the power of True Love. That was an outgrowth of the existing connection between Thomas and Justine, plus some mystically-significant qualifications. The mystic protection was broken in the GS epilogue (either temporarily, as hoped for, or permanently), but there's been no evidence that this shifted their fundamental devotion to each other. Thomas lives and breathes for Justine, and the fact that she had True Love protections is proof that it was reciprocated on her part.
Yes, their relationship could have downgraded to the point that Justine no longer loves Thomas, and would willingly betray him to his death. There is no evidence that this actually happened, however. We're back in "Harry is secretly a serial killer" territory.
Bad Alias:
If Justine doesn't have true love protection after GS, it's because their fundamental devotion to each other has shifted. BR was a decade before PT.
We're told Harry is going to be betrayed. We have no idea what led to Thomas attacking the Svartalves. Justine has a lot of people watching her. Someone is leaking White Court secrets.
Justine is a better guess than any I've seen.
Grifter:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on July 18, 2020, 12:18:57 AM ---If Justine doesn't have true love protection after GS, it's because their fundamental devotion to each other has shifted. BR was a decade before PT.
We're told Harry is going to be betrayed. We have no idea what led to Thomas attacking the Svartalves. Justine has a lot of people watching her. Someone is leaking White Court secrets.
Justine is a better guess than any I've seen.
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Wasn't Justine providing intel on the Wamps to Harry a few books back?
Bad Alias:
Harry remarked on it in Skin Game. Because we're reading books instead of investigating a real world incident, it stands to reason that we can figure everything out with the information provided. That means it's very likely that we know who is leaking from or spying on the White Court. Harry suggests the White Council, and that's entirely plausible. Who else do we know who could be doing it? Either Thomas or Justine. So we only have three options. If it was Thomas, why wasn't he trying to warn Harry that he needed help?
There are rules that govern good fiction, genre fiction, fiction I enjoy, fiction any particular person reading this post enjoys, etc. If we understand any or all of these sets of rules, we can make pretty good guesses.
Jim usually doesn't have things come from nowhere. Therefore, the leaker isn't coming from nowhere. We know whoever it is, or it's Harry's proffered explanation of "a wizard did it."
Grifter:
--- Quote from: Bad Alias on July 18, 2020, 01:43:22 AM ---Harry remarked on it in Skin Game. Because we're reading books instead of investigating a real world incident, it stands to reason that we can figure everything out with the information provided. That means it's very likely that we know who is leaking from or spying on the White Court. Harry suggests the White Council, and that's entirely plausible. Who else do we know who could be doing it? Either Thomas or Justine. So we only have three options. If it was Thomas, why wasn't he trying to warn Harry that he needed help?
There are rules that govern good fiction, genre fiction, fiction I enjoy, fiction any particular person reading this post enjoys, etc. If we understand any or all of these sets of rules, we can make pretty good guesses.
Jim usually doesn't have things come from nowhere. Therefore, the leaker isn't coming from nowhere. We know whoever it is, or it's Harry's proffered explanation of "a wizard did it."
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So in PT, Lara thinks it must be a wizard of the council's caliber to have their spying method not discovered. But that's also because she doesn't believe her people will betray her. And the leak has only been occurring for a few weeks, overlapping Justine's pregnancy, which is only about 6 weeks in.
So possible culprits are Justine, Cowl, Kumori, Elaine, Thomas, Justin-not-ded, or Eb. Mostly in order from most to least likely.
But with Eb being so anti-vamp in this book, we can't discount him doing some spying. I just can't see him violating the accords to the degree required to set Thomas up for the hit.
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