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Questions for Mab
g33k:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 08, 2025, 12:08:34 PM ---... It's possible that Harry may have been able to bargain for a good pay check, but at the time he was in no position to bargain at all ...
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And yet, bargain he did.
He just didn't care enough about cashflow to include it into the bargain.
--- Quote from: Mira on May 08, 2025, 12:08:34 PM --- ... Unless the Lady cannot bargain on her own, I don't see why Molly with her seemingly unlimited resources cannot set up her former master and friend so he can be financially solvent, not rich maybe but able to support those he has to support.
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"Molly" could maybe do so.
The "Winter Lady" must do all such transactions as bargains, as you yourself pointed out:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 08, 2025, 12:08:34 PM --- ... There is evidence that she can bargain since Harry did ask and got a favor from her in Peace Talks when she made that ring for him so he could create a double of himself to fool Eb.
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Just so.
--- Quote from: Mira on May 08, 2025, 12:08:34 PM --- ... And if Mab is as smart as she claims to be she will understand that a solvent Winter Knight is a more effective Winter Knight and she will increase his pay check if he gets one from her.
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I'm pretty sure Mab feels that her WK already has all the resources he needs, to do the job. And if Dresden is too stupid or weak-willed or squeamish to leverage the resources she's already given him, it's not Mab's job to make his life any easier.
Remember, Mab's the girl who picked the 2nd-most powerful faerie to be her "close enemy" in order that she, Mab, could keep herself keenly sharpened for the war.
Mira:
--- Quote ---And yet, bargain he did.
He just didn't care enough about cashflow to include it into the bargain.
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Really? I am not saying that you are wrong here, no he didn't care.. However you make it sound like it wasn't important to him. It is important to him, but at that moment in time, it was WAY down on his list of priorities. His back was broken, his little girl about to be sacrificed, he and his grandfather about to be killed in a generational spell, so yeah, he didn't care, why? Because if he didn't survive a 401 K from Mab wasn't going to do him much good!
--- Quote ---"Molly" could maybe do so.
The "Winter Lady" must do all such transactions as bargains, as you yourself pointed out:
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The interesting point is why hasn't she? I got the sense from Peace Talks that Molly doesn't like bargains, especially in the case of Harry. It maybe because she feels the only reason she is alive is because of him, or because she loves him, but I don't think she wants him to be indebted to her anymore than absolutely necessary. Or she has observed how Mab uses it to wield power over others and she doesn't agree with it.
--- Quote ---I'm pretty sure Mab feels that her WK already has all the resources he needs, to do the job. And if Dresden is too stupid or weak-willed or squeamish to leverage the resources she's already given him, it's not Mab's job to make his life any easier.
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Or perhaps doesn't understand? Mab maybe too removed from the human perspective to understand. Remember there are a lot of things the Fae don't understand about how humans think.
Mr. Mouse:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 09, 2025, 01:04:40 PM --- Could it be worse than the White Council? I seem to remember Rashid telling Harry he has no idea what a favor Rachid did for him vouching that he was still alive and filling out all those forms,to prove it.. ::)
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Of course it's worse, it's Mab. The process is sharply pointed and makes your blood run cold.
Mira:
--- Quote from: Mr. Mouse on May 10, 2025, 01:41:04 PM ---Of course it's worse, it's Mab. The process is sharply pointed and makes your blood run cold.
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Mab is bad true, but a bureaucracy of wizards might be worse.. ;)
Talby16:
--- Quote from: Mira on May 10, 2025, 11:34:23 AM ---Or perhaps doesn't understand? Mab maybe too removed from the human perspective to understand. Remember there are a lot of things the Fae don't understand about how humans think.
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Mab may be removed from the human perspective, but she will grab onto any weapon she can in order to achieve her goals. Money is one of those resources that she can use to further her own ends in the mortal world. There is a reason Molly's account has so many zeros in it. Mab sees that value in money, she just doesn't amass it to be rich for rich's sake. She absolutely could be operating under the principle that she provides the knight the basic tools and it is up to him to gather what he needs.
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