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What if Harry's Assumptions are Wrong?
Mira:
Wouldn't be the first time would it? Finally the book arrived around one this afternoon.. I began
reading, why is it when you want peace and to be left alone, it doesn't happen?
Anyway, I haven't gotten too far, but a thought occurred to me as Harry gazed at his mangled brother.
What if his assumptions were wrong? What if
(click to show/hide)Thomas wasn't saying "Justine" at all? What if "Junghg.S'Jnngh." was the person or creature that put him up to committing this crime? And on Demonreach as he was being put under in the cell, "J. . .J. . ." it wasn't Justine at all on his lips, he was still attempting to tell Harry who really was behind all of this?
After I've finished this book, need to go back and check out names that are even remotely close, who do they belong to? It could be very important in how this all comes out.
forumghost:
Quite frankly I feel like the real twist would be if Harry's assumptions were actually on the money for a change.
Yeah, I'm 99% certain that Thomas was actually trying to tell his dimwit brother something super important and he just couldn't understand because apparently the svartalfs were either too dumb to keep the assassin in a state where they could make him talk about his employer, or didn't want him to talk about them.
SpacedCowboy:
It’d be quite the twist if Justin comes back, Ded or not.
BrianC:
Ive been racking my brain to try and figure out who of Harrys enemies has a name that starts with J
Grifter:
Well let's reason this Justin thing out, as I think it would require a lot of assumptions.
1) Justin was a contemporary of Margaret's. He might have visited and Thomas could have seen him, but he would have been young. Depending on if DuMorne still had contact with Raith after Margaret left, Thomas could have easily been old enough to know him.
2) We also have to assume that Thomas never mentioned to Harry that he knew his abusive adoptive father, because that kind of info would have been shared with the reader as foreshadowing.
4) We have to assume Justin is good enough to enthral Thomas. We know he has experience with it, as he did it to Justine. And Thomas seemed to be weak, so maybe he would be susceptible. We could alternately assume he blackmailed him or something, but Thomas just going with that seems unlikely.
4) We have to assume that DuMorne would expose himself to Thomas in the process, rather than keeping his identity hidden under a cowl or something.
5) We have to assume the payoff would be worth revealing himself and revealing he was still alive. I could see where Thomas dying in the attempt might be a safe assumption, but it seems awfully risky, because there are a ton of people in town that would be able to examine Thomas and see that he was manipulated.
--- Quote from: BrianC on July 16, 2020, 02:33:50 AM ---Ive been racking my brain to try and figure out who of Harrys enemies has a name that starts with J
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Not many. I was looking earlier. Really just Justin, or the Jade Court (doesn't seem like something an isolationist faction would do, unless Nemfected?), or the Genowska (sounds like J to start with), or Jenny Greenteeth (dead but maybe not?).
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