The Dresden Files > DF Spoilers
Oversight or a bit twisted?
g33k:
I don't think just one thing was going on, here. Overall, though, I'm with @Mira on this, and @JTass.
I expect Mab had given orders to keep Harry ignorant for a bit longer, and Maeve "had to" obey (Nemfection would let her disobey, but she's still pretending to be "undercover" and hiding her freedom from Winter edicts).
So, Maeve was "obediently" feigning that she had little or no knowledge of Sarisssa; but also leaning-in on the "crazed nympho slut" image she likes to portray (insinuating all sorts of erotic delights on offer); plus (from Sarissa's obvious reaction) making it into a threat; and (as another layer hidden from Harry) playing an incestuous head-game with Sarissa.
It's all kind of... petty and trivial. But it's part and parcel with Maeve's self-image as a major player in Winter's layers-upon-layers of misdirection / multiply-redundant planning & goals, whereas she's actually kind of bad at all that (Winter Lady's Mantle gives her a lot of power & faerie glamour, but the mind directing all that power is... well... petty and trivial).
morriswalters:
--- Quote ---Maeve turned to her mother and sipped at her blue champagne. She said nothing, and her features were entirely smooth and relaxed, but you could just smell the way she was smirking on the inside..
And only then did I really get it. Maeve’s first attempt to get me to start a fight at court had been a distraction, then. She’d wanted me to focus on her, to unnerve me with her high-voltage psychic sex moves. That way I wouldn’t be thinking clearly enough to avoid it when the Redcap sprang his surprise.
Mab stared down at the Winter Lady for another silent minute. Then she smiled and bowed her head very slightly toward her daughter, the gesture one of acknowledgment. “Well played,” Mab murmured. She didn’t raise her voice. She didn’t have to. The ice rang with it.
Butcher, Jim. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, Book 14) (pp. 50-51). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Mira:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on June 28, 2022, 04:53:05 PM ---Maeve turned to her mother and sipped at her blue champagne. She said nothing, and her features were entirely smooth and relaxed, but you could just smell the way she was smirking on the inside..
And only then did I really get it. Maeve’s first attempt to get me to start a fight at court had been a distraction, then. She’d wanted me to focus on her, to unnerve me with her high-voltage psychic sex moves. That way I wouldn’t be thinking clearly enough to avoid it when the Redcap sprang his surprise.
Mab stared down at the Winter Lady for another silent minute. Then she smiled and bowed her head very slightly toward her daughter, the gesture one of acknowledgment. “Well played,” Mab murmured. She didn’t raise her voice. She didn’t have to. The ice rang with it.
Butcher, Jim. Cold Days (The Dresden Files, Book 14) (pp. 50-51). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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However we find out later from Molly, in either Peace Talks or Battle Ground that at that point Mab already knew that Maeve was infected. However it was in essence the same moves that Maeve did in the Chicago underground with Ginny Greenteeth. But it didn't work, Harry isn't Slate, the mantle didn't eat him alive.
g33k:
--- Quote from: morriswalters on June 28, 2022, 04:53:05 PM ---
--- Quote ---Then she smiled and bowed her head very slightly toward her daughter, the gesture one of acknowledgment. “Well played,” Mab murmured.
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Mab at this point knew her daughter was Nemfected.
It was only a few minutes later that she ordered Harry to kill the Winter Lady.
I think Mab knew for a long time... specifically, the scene with Grimalkin speaking for Mab, and later Mab's own voice injuring Harry... that was Mab's rage at discovering the 2-in-1 corruption of the Winter Lady and her own daughter.
That scene you quoted -- where Mab "acknowledged" Maeve's success -- was Mab making a minor/momentary sacrifice to advance her long-term gambit. Specifically, I think she was feeding Maeve on a diet of overconfidence, leading Maeve to believe she was playing on Mab's level.
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Mira:
--- Quote from: g33k on July 04, 2022, 04:29:04 AM ---[/quote
Mab at this point knew her daughter was Nemfected.
It was only a few minutes later that she ordered Harry to kill the Winter Lady.
I think Mab knew for a long time... specifically, the scene with Grimalkin speaking for Mab, and later Mab's own voice injuring Harry... that was Mab's rage at discovering the 2-in-1 corruption of the Winter Lady and her own daughter.
That scene you quoted -- where Mab "acknowledged" Maeve's success -- was Mab making a minor/momentary sacrifice to advance her long-term gambit. Specifically, I think she was feeding Maeve on a diet of overconfidence, leading Maeve to believe she was playing on Mab's level.
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Exactly, using Maeve's pre-infection perverted nature against her, very Mab..
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