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Questions for Mab
Mira:
--- Quote ---Even if the taxes were reduced to zero, the sheer cost of keeping the power on, the garbage service running, etc, is gonna be huge.
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That's true, and will be a problem. However if you remember Harry used to heat his apartment with a fireplace and take cold showers even in Chicago winters... So discomfort I don't think bothers him much, and those living rent free will have either put up with it or move out. Some by now might be paying rent or have moved out, he will still have to deal with recycling pizza boxes etc..
LordDresden2:
--- Quote from: SerScot on March 13, 2025, 03:26:58 PM ---In “The Law” Harry mentions how he only has funds to run the Castle for 18 months… that must be his Skin Game loot. At some point Harry’s constant money problems are just ridiculous. Can our Author not just addess that?
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I'm pretty sure the Author has no wish to do so.
Money is power. If Harry has access to lots of cash on a regular basis, his life gets easier, his options more extensive, it gets harder to wrap him in plot difficulties.
Remember back in Turn Coat: Harry was hiding Morgan from the Council and almost everyone else, but he had only a handful of places he could use. Luckily for him, most of the people hunting him were used to having lots of resources and didn't fully grasp how limited Harry's options were.
Binder did get it, and he actually said at one point "Money never gets it." Binder is working class background and he understood exactly why Harry was doing things they way he did them.
Mira:
--- Quote from: LordDresden2 on March 15, 2025, 06:31:05 AM ---I'm pretty sure the Author has no wish to do so.
Money is power. If Harry has access to lots of cash on a regular basis, his life gets easier, his options more extensive, it gets harder to wrap him in plot difficulties.
Remember back in Turn Coat: Harry was hiding Morgan from the Council and almost everyone else, but he had only a handful of places he could use. Luckily for him, most of the people hunting him were used to having lots of resources and didn't fully grasp how limited Harry's options were.
Binder did get it, and he actually said at one point "Money never gets it." Binder is working class background and he understood exactly why Harry was doing things they way he did them.
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I agree with SerScot, time for that aspect of the story to move on. Harry living hand to mouth is getting old, and frankly a waste of page space when so much else is going on. And yes, most people will tell you that there is never enough money. If push comes to shove his Winter Lady, Molly could help him out a bit, she did after all supply him with a nice apartment for a time until Thomas ruined it for him. If he does marry Lara, it will also be solved since she has plenty of money for the both of them and more. However that may not be a price that he is willing to pay.
LostInTime:
--- Quote from: SerScot on March 11, 2025, 10:09:29 PM ---Didn’t Molly mention having significant financial resources as Winter Lady… as such… and because it would make Harry more effective and efficient as Winter Knight shouldn’t Harry ask Mab about a salary or financial resources available to him as Winter Knight?
Any other questions Harry should address to Mab?
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There was a WOJ about this. Harry has been paid with power. If he wants a paycheck, then he has to be on the clock working for Winter. He's just on call as a troubleshooter right now.
Mira:
I think Harry will have come into some more money by now to his sorrow. Murphy may have left her worldly goods to him in her Will, which also included at least one sock full of diamonds. This might also be one of Mab's motives for the union between Harry and Lara, she has enough money for the two of them.
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