Did I miss something? [Twelve Months]

[Don]

I thought I heard a WoJ from an interview that we would find out more about Cowl and Kumori in TM.

There was a mention of them and Harry was thinking they had something to do with Lash, but that was it.

My first read is usually for fun and then I give it some time before I read it again to try to look for story clues, but this one has me wanting to ask for help.

What did I miss?

[Bad Alias]

Are you sure it wasn't Mirror Mirror he was talking about? If there was something in 12 Months, I also missed it.

[earthexile313]

The style of Twelve Months makes me think it could very easily have had sections added or removed throughout the writing process. It doesn't have the hour-to-hour urgency of the typical stories, and Harry refers to stuff happening in passing that could easily have been a chapter or two or a whole adventure. So it's possible that depending on when you asked Jim, Cowl and Kumori were in the story to different degrees.

I honestly figured that's where the Bock's Ordered Black Magic storyline was going, I hear people talking about using Black Magic for moral purposes and I think "Kumori?" We've seen her playing antihero for random Chicago citizens before.

[g33k]

... and Harry refers to stuff happening in passing that could easily have been a chapter or two or a whole adventure...

I noticed a few one-line mentions that were some of the short stories set in the same timeframe as 12M.

... I honestly figured that's where the Bock's Ordered Black Magic storyline was going, I hear people talking about using Black Magic for moral purposes and I think "Kumori?" We've seen her playing antihero for random Chicago citizens before. 

I've been wondering:  how exactly did Kravos' Book of Shadows wind up in Bock's hands??!?
It seems... odd.  Extremely so, in fact.

Unexplained coincidence aimed directly at Harry speaks IMO to one of 2 sources:  Black Council shenanigans; or Mab.  My money is on Mab for this one.  The truth is, Kravos was a low-grade threat; he was defeated long ago when Harry was younger, weaker.  I don't think the Black Council would bother re-running that playbook in a downgraded form with the even-weaker Bock as the BigBad caster.  But Mab?  Mab knows Harry's hurting, working below capacity; that he's in need of some confidence-boosts, some nice moral clarity... so she arranges for Harry to get this softball mini-case, one he already knows how to solve.  And building Harry up by means of a series of gradually-increasing threats is 100% in her playbook.