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What is Lara's problem? [PT Spoilers!]
Mira:
--- Quote from: Arjan on August 04, 2020, 12:16:10 PM ---And now she has to protect Harry. Harry did not see that coming but Mab probably did ;D
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Yes, but none of this is getting to the bottom of all of this in the first place.. What was the motivation behind Thomas suddenly turning into an assassin?
Dina:
--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on August 04, 2020, 12:03:26 PM ---My guess is the first favor is that she gets Harry once Mab is done with him. So she's toying with her food- the true love doesn't matter, etc.
Then Harry snags Thomas. No Harry, no Thomas. And she's out of favors.
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I don't think Mab can "give" Harry to Lara, so I still believe the first favor is something different.
vultur:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 04, 2020, 02:50:27 PM ---Yes, but none of this is getting to the bottom of all of this in the first place.. What was the motivation behind Thomas suddenly turning into an assassin?
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In chapter one, after Thomas tells Harry about the pregnancy, Harry says he shouldn't ignore/hide/not talk about the vampire side of his nature. Thomas then says:
--- Quote from: PT, chapter 1 --- "Probably. I have a solution in mind." he said. "I'll work on it. Good enough?"
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A solution to what? Justine surviving the pregnancy? Or, given the context, maybe a way to get rid of the Hunger?
I think Thomas made some kind of supernatural deal and his attack was his side of it. (And killing Etri wasn't necessarily the real goal - it could have been to disrupt the talks, or to kill Austri, or even specifically to distract Harry and/or Lara and Freydis from something else happening.)
Given Mab's planning/scheming capacities, I think she knows what Lara is going to use the favors for and expects to get something out of it. So maybe Thomas' action helped Winter. (Austri was Nemfected? Mab needs to distract Harry from something that she's doing that would get him killed intervening?)
That doesn't necessarily mean Thomas made a deal with Mab, though it could. It could be somebody else but Mab knows about it and is manipulating it to work out in her favor.
vultur:
--- Quote from: BrainFireBob on August 04, 2020, 12:03:26 PM ---My guess is the first favor is that she gets Harry once Mab is done with him.
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Mab's never going to be done with him while Harry lives, IMO. (At least not by choice: I don't expect Mab to survive the series.) Mab made a really big deal out of him becoming Winter Knight for a reason.
I mean, maybe after the BAT, but I kind of doubt it.
And I don't think that would work out very well for Lara anyway. Even if Harry was unable to defend himself because of the Faerie favor rules, killing or enslaving Harry would probably invite a lot of revenge. At the very least, it draws her into conflict with Thomas; at worst, Eb drops a satellite/meteor/etc on her.
Lara's smart enough not to eat people who have friends/family powerful enough to kill her.
Mira:
--- Quote ---In chapter one, after Thomas tells Harry about the pregnancy, Harry says he shouldn't ignore/hide/not talk about the vampire side of his nature. Thomas then says:."Probably. I have a solution in mind." he said. "I'll work on it. Good enough?"
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1] He has already made a bargain with someone who can save Justine from the Hunger.
2] He is going to talk her into aborting..
3] He has no solution, but he wanted to placate Harry and shut him up because the subject was
too painful for him.
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