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bigdangmoose:
All this talk on another thread about TM has got me thinking on how it may go down. As stated in the title, this is just speculation going off of what Jim has told us.

Because of what Jim has personally gone through and what he has put Harry through, he is going to write about Harry finally coming to terms and grieving about what has happened in his life. What I hope to see is basically a book of shorts with an overarching story through the hole book. Each short would be a day or weekend in a month, some just a chapter, some a few. In each we would see some advancement or regression in his progress. We would get to see the how the wedding planning would progress with Molly reluctantly doing it. With action in the book, Jim has already set that up by saying at the end of BG that beings are hunting for Harry and the eye. Plus, we need to have the hunt for Justine. I really hope that if the pregnancy is real, she gets caught before the baby is born. Doesn't sit right with me if she isn't. And, my fear is, by the end of the book we will have one more funeral, just to finally tell Harry he can't save every one, that some battles are not won. I think we will see LtW die of old age, before he gets to tell Harry about being a Starborn.

And then to just throw it in, the wedding is taking place and while Harry is getting ready, that is when he is pulled into the alt reality and starts the book MM.

pcpoet:
I want to see harry be a father to his girls.  I also want harry to discover that litle Chicago did not get destroyed in the fire but because the sub basement it was in survived the fire. I want to see Maggie discover that she has some talent. I want bonny to meet bob her real father....we all know it was not Dresden that fooled around with lash because Dresden still had his true love protection after bonnie was conceived  ergo Bob is the father.

bigdangmoose:
Nah, it's not Bob that's the father. It's IDHarry

KurtinStGeorge:
Just making a guess, but the main arc of a twelve month long story could be Harry trying to find Justine, and deciding what to do with her, if and when he finds her.  Plus, because of the recent WoJ that mortals can't be locked up indefinitely in Demonreach, the situation with Thomas will come to a head.  However, the emotional core of the story would be Harry working through his grief, finally learning to deal with his anger and other personal issues.  Near the end of the novel, perhaps we would see a new Harry start to emerge.  One who is a bit more emotionally mature and someone who is finally willing to start facing issues he's long avoided.   

Each chapter; or actually each month as one month could take up several chapters, could have Harry dealing with different problems.  One month could involve something as simple as a series of public appearances by the Winter Knight in the company of Lara Raith and the fallout that generates.  In old romantic and screwball comedies of the 1930's and 40's, often a rich socialite character would have her name in the society or gossip section of a newspaper saying she was dating or engaged to someone and there would often be scenes in a nightclub or on an ocean liner.  I'm not sure how this would work in the Chicago supernatural world, but I could see Harry with Lara at some kind of public function, maybe at Arctis Tor, maybe at Club Zero, with a bunch of members of different supernatural nations invited for some special occasion, just to make a public show that Winter and the White Court are now allies.  Then Harry would hear from Ebenezer or someone else from the Council, plus who knows how his friends will react.  An alternative is that there are several such public appearances that occur throughout the novel leading up to an engagement party, at which point all hell will break loose.

My only other guess is at some point during the year Harry will go to visit River Shoulders and learn from him.

Snark Knight:

--- Quote from: KurtinStGeorge on November 20, 2020, 03:02:46 AM ---Plus, because of the recent WoJ that mortals can't be locked up indefinitely in Demonreach, the situation with Thomas will come to a head. 

--- End quote ---

Eventually, I agree. But "not indefinitely" probably isn't going to be so short as sometime in the next year. The whole narrative point of killing off Karrin and putting Thomas on ice is to remove probably the two people closest to Harry in effectively a single blow to him.

As much as the prison can't hold a free-willed being forever, the problems Harry is going to have to solve before pulling him out are not small. They need to figure a way for him to not die as soon as he's brought back up. Harry won't be down with bringing one or more victims out to the island for him to kill, and he might be too deep in self-loathing after the trauma of the binding process to feed anyway. Even Lara's method of transferring energy to him seemed more like buying time than something that could be extended to an actual cure. And then they need the svartalves mollified enough not to go for his head instantly anyway.

Not beyond solving, but I doubt they'll be fast.

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