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Let's take another look at Elaine ...
Mira:
--- Quote ---I daresay the cunning manipulative Nemfected part kept the insane plan well-hidden from those like Eldest Gruff, who would doubtless have told Titania straight away.
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Very good point, and by the time Titania realized it, like Mab with Maeve, it was too late and death was the only answer. Titania knew that and that is why she didn't kill Harry outright for Aurora's death. What she objected to was the death by a million steel cuts from the knives, "swords" of the Wee Folk at Harry's bidding.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on August 27, 2023, 05:06:15 PM --- ... What she objected to was the death by a million steel cuts from the knives, "swords" of the Wee Folk at Harry's bidding.
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The heart wants what the heart wants; Titania's heart wanted her daughter alive, even though her mind understood why Aurora had to die.
"A million steel cuts" may have seemed like an horrible way to die (salt in Titania's wound) but the essence of her pain and rage was simply that Aurora was killed.
Mab had a similar pain & rage over Maeve's death (those times when she used others' voices, because her own would have damaged Harry). She "got it out of her system" ahead of time, and was icy-cold by the time she gave the order to her new Winter Knight.
Mira:
--- Quote ---The heart wants what the heart wants; Titania's heart wanted her daughter alive, even though her mind understood why Aurora had to die.
"A million steel cuts" may have seemed like an horrible way to die (salt in Titania's wound) but the essence of her pain and rage was simply that Aurora was killed.
Mab had a similar pain & rage over Maeve's death (those times when she used others' voices, because her own would have damaged Harry). She "got it out of her system" ahead of time, and was icy-cold by the time she gave the order to her new Winter Knight.
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Of course the heart wants what the heart wants, but one has to think of the greater good. I also think the manner of death was a huge factor.. If you know your loved one has to die, be executed if you will, whether it is a quick and relatively painless one verses a painful slower one matters.. Maeve's death was quick, and enabled by Mab herself, still very painful to Mab, but she didn't seek revenge for it. Aurora's death was painful and slower, that's what Titania cannot forgive. I don't know what you mean about Mab "getting it out of her system" before she realized that Maeve was infected beyond help and had to die.
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on September 07, 2023, 05:24:18 PM --- ... but one has to think of the greater good ...
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That's why Harry was still alive.
But still, Titania experiences the agony of loss, and rage against the instrument of her loss.
--- Quote from: Mira on September 07, 2023, 05:24:18 PM --- ... Aurora's death was painful and slower, that's what Titania cannot forgive ...
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It was painful, yes. But still only a matter of a few minutes, at most. Not lingering in extended agony (as some mortals must (as Aurora's co-conspirator Lloyd Slate did)).
--- Quote from: Mira on September 07, 2023, 05:24:18 PM --- ... I don't know what you mean about Mab "getting it out of her system" before she realized that Maeve was infected beyond help and had to die.
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Not before she realized, but when she realized. We don't know exactly what happened. But several books before Harry is ordered to kill Maeve, Mab showed up using Grimalkin as a her sockpuppet. I understood that to be Mab's 1st scene after learning that Nemesis had taken Maeve (and thus, that Mab herself would most likely need to arrange Maeve's death).
By the time of Cold Days, Mab has somehow "gotten it out of her system" (or "come to terms" with it, however you want to say it) and she is able to speak normally.
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