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Why, Thomas, Why? (Peace Talks Spoilers)
Second Aristh:
Seems like Freydis should be added to that list. She's a new addition to Lara's inner circle, and probably the easiest for a shapeshifter to impersonate. She's mostly a physical brawler, and her runic magic can be stolen with no one the wiser.
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---“One of the people surveilling Justine is the person who threatened her,” Murphy said. “And they must have given Thomas an ultimatum. And because he’s an idiot like you, Harry, he didn’t tell her about it.”
Butcher, Jim. Peace Talks (Dresden Files) (p. 226). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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There are three groups watching and Gary and Gray. Cowl or Marcone is the cops. I make the FBI for the MIB, and the last group is Lara's people. Right or wrong that's Harry's candidates.
Conspiracy Theorist:
You are forgetting Paranoid Gary, who really should team up with Goodman Grey. Introducing Grey to Gary may have been Harry’s biggest mistake in PT, I can see them working together in the future, as Gary’s Internet skills and Grey’s actual world skills complement each other, and will probably get along famously as creepy paranoids.
Just read Monsters, yes Paranoid Gary would work well with Vitti, who would merely call him “reasonably precautious Gary”. Vitti wasn’t able to discern it was Gary, only that someone had co-opted the cameras. I could see a series of Goodman Grey short stories and Novellas working, not sure about novel length.
ClintACK:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on July 18, 2020, 03:24:57 AM ---There are three groups watching and Gary and Gray. Cowl or Marcone is the cops. I make the FBI for the MIB, and the last group is Lara's people. Right or wrong that's Harry's candidates.
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Plus Eb. Harry shows up to look for someone keeping an eye on Justine. He spends an hour and a half looking for magical surveillance, finds nothing, and then has Eb decloak at his rear and call him an idiot for not spotting him.
Eb has a plausible explanation for why he's there, but he's also perfectly capable of hiding himself from Harry (as he did) and if it had been any other wizard veiled near Justine's place he would have jumped to the top of the list.
Alternative theory: The White Council was spying on Justine, which means Martha Liberty's spy network and scrying spells way, way too subtle for Harry to spot them. And it probably means Liberty alerted Eb to his former apprentice skulking around at Justine's place.
Conspiracy Theorist:
Okay why surveil Thomas and Justine in the first place?
1. Because of their connection to the White Court
2. Because of their connection to Harry
1. The White Court can buy and sell almost anyone in the mortal world so the cops and the FBI will be paid not to surveil Thomas and Justine. This leaves all other powers. Marcone maybe on the cops, but not if it is Rudy. Rudy is too incompetent and cowardly to be an asset for Marcone, I wouldn’t be surprised if his partner is an asset, but only reporting on Rudy, not Justine and Thomas.
This leaves the other powers. The Swartalves could do this magically through an untraceable device, Thomas interacts with them and they are paranoid about security. They wouldn’t use mortal intermediaries though. The fact that nothing could located would suggest that they have something there which even Grey could not discern. They are that good. They would therefore have known about the baby.
None of the other Accord powers have any beef with the White Court currently, or would not need to use mortal intermediaries.
The FBI may be Tilly on his own initiative, bypassing his superiors bought by Lara.Thomas and Justine live outside Chateau Raith making them the only accessible members of the White Court.
2. The White Council or a faction thereof could easily be the cops, Harry proved to them in Proven Guilty that conventional means are often the best against Wizards, and they know of the relationship with Thomas through Luccio. Rudy is being bought by someone, I think the Merlin is behind the current push to oust Harry and neither Eb nor Martha know as it isn’t an official White Court operation. If Rudy isn’t bought by Marcone, the Merlin is the most likely candidate.
Not Nick, Thomas has largely been in the background in the Denarian books and Anduriel can spy from shadows anyway.
The Black Council, maybe but again why use mortal intermediaries? They have in the past been privy to the White Council’s intelligence on Harry and didn’t need to do this.
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