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The Archive
Conspiracy Theorist:
My guess is the Archive resides in Milwaukee, it vanished for a reason in the Unseelie Incursion of 94, so if it was for the death of the current Archives grandmother leading to the birth of the current Archive in 1995 then Ivy would be 18- 19 by Battle Ground in 2014. Harry remarks at how grown up she looks.
Harry estimated Ivy as 12 - 13 in Ghost Story in 2012, but this is only his estimation and he is an unreliable narrator, so he could be several years off. This timeline would make her 16 when she dismissed Kincaid, when she could reach the pedals and drive herself.
Milwaukee would be a simple train journey for the Archive as presumably she is subject to the normal mortal wizard fudge factors ruling out air travel, and her neutrality ruling out travel via the Ways largely controlled by Winter and Summer. Nick would have taken this into account.
morriswalters:
I suspect that Ivy was on a train because you can get off if attacked. We won't mention that her stuff would have been in a baggage car.
Mira:
--- Quote ---Harry estimated Ivy as 12 - 13 in Ghost Story in 2012, but this is only his estimation and he is an unreliable narrator, so he could be several years off. This timeline would make her 16 when she dismissed Kincaid, when she could reach the pedals and drive herself.
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I think that works because when we meet her in Death Masks she appears to be anywhere from five to seven years of age given her reaction to Mister. Then again Jim has a hard time writing young girls. Molly at the age of twelve or thirteen seemed like she was going on twenty, where as Maggie who is about twelve now reads more like a seven or eight year old.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 16, 2022, 11:06:25 PM ---... Then again Jim has a hard time writing young girls. Molly at the age of twelve or thirteen seemed like she was going on twenty, where as Maggie who is about twelve now reads more like a seven or eight year old.
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This is a very good point.
Ed0517:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 16, 2022, 10:08:00 PM --- Actually millions of people commute into Chicago by train, they have to, going by car is a nightmare. She may have lived in the suburbs or one of the neighboring towns like my son does. He doesn't use a train to commute every day because of the nature of his job, but his wife did when she worked in Chicago.. It takes my son between one to two hours by car to get down town, it took my daughter in law half that time by train. Any way you slice it, you can say that Ivy didn't live in Chicago.
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Seen NYC ? - Chicago commute is relatively easy. I'm thinking Metro north/LIRR/NJ Transit style. She could be in the NW suburbs, for example. Southern Wisconsin - Lake Geneva? Jim might put her there for the gaming connection. ChicagoLAND if not Chicago.
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