That was kind of the thought behind him doing things to pay of debts for others.

I figured what Grey was really getting out of the matter was mainly from Vadderung in exchange for just being available for Harry to 'hire'. It was probably only a dollar because some aspect of the job appealed to him and he just has to keep up his code of being a mercenary so he has to charge something.

Like, Kincaid would probably not care much about money either if someone was shopping around contracts on Nicodemus. Payment would just be a mercenary excuse for doing something he really wants to anyway. (Actually, with Nic left on the run at the end of SG and Marcone having put a price on him, I wonder if Kincaid will be tempted to leave Ivy's service now that she's older and go head-hunting)

Quick question: Where in the time line does Dog Men land? Harry's exposure to government agents aware of and meddling in the supernatural world has definite series impact.

After Wild Card but before Changes. Probably not super far before Changes.

Absolutely not.  When Marcone was talking about killing Harry, it's because Harry was a threat to Marcone, not to Chicago.  Marcone does head up a criminal empire, remember.

I mean, if Harry went dark in a way that offended Marcone's rules (no kids, no excessive public order disruptions) he'd probably order the hit. Maybe that's why MM Marcone is "interesting".

Great question. It never even crossed my mind to question that scene. Given what Tessa was throwing around later on, I wouldn't think that power is an issue but still...

Tessa probably has use of the Sight, but I'm not sure how effective a tactic it actually would have been in the aquarium. They had no idea what room Ivy was in, and it risks 'information overload' to use it for a room-by-room search. Plus Ivy probably would have changed plans from hide to throw her hardest punch by surprise if she saw anyone trying that.

In terms of questions, I'd like to nominate for consideration:
- Can blampires just go to sleep in a well-hidden coffin for a few decades to wait out a period of danger, and did any of the Elders try to get through the Stokerlypse like that?
- In the DV, historical authors like Shakespeare, Stoker and Lovecraft were "onto something". Are there any others?
- Since the event is for the Dog Men release, I suppose it's topical to ask what was up with those feds? They didn't seem especially bothered by a couple of wizards learning there are clued feds. So there's the (highly reclusive) Librarians and some other agency that's LTW has some familiarity with?
- What's the actual difference between a Fae ruler and a pagan god? The Fae still seem to depend on belief to some extent (hence Mab inspiring the Brothers Grimm and Walt Disney to keep faeries in human cultural mythology). Vadderung / Kringle is straddling the line, and the Erlking also seems to have aspects of some of the pagan hunt gods.
- In Fool Moon, Chauncey the demon told Harry the loup garou curse was "said to" have originally been cast by Saint Patrick. Supernaturally forcing an entire bloodline of people to become involuntary killers seems pretty out of alignment with Heaven's rules on free will. Was Chauncey repeating a false story as hearsay?
- In a previous Q&A about thresholds, Jim said the fetches actually hammered through the Carpenter threshold, making Harry mistaken in assuming they gained an invitation by shapeshifting into a trusted form. Putting together the Scarecrow's seemingly abnormally high resistance to iron with the subsequent information from Cold Days (Cat Sith's explanation of Fae law on thresholds, and that Nemesis releases its hosts from the binding rules of their nature), do we have sufficient basis to confirm the leading three fetches who entered the Carpenter house were N-fected?

So, would Mother Winter be the closest to the source of Fae power?

The Mother Winter mantle might yet even turn out to be the portion of power the original Hecate chose to keep for herself when dividing the Courts and queen mantles.

Is Jim going to flip flop books between series again?

He said the Olympia Affair (CS #2) is next on his writing queue in one of the previous statements, yes.

As much as we're all hella excited for Mirror Mirror, Jim has said alternating projects helps him not get sick of doing too much of one thing. Besides, more talking cats.

Benedict Jacka's Alex Verus series is already heavily similar to the DF. It might be fun to see them write a short story in each other's universe or something.