One thing that jumps to mind is that Cowl uses gloves. Might be that his hands have scars like his arms do and he is using gloves to cover them up. (He revealed the scars in his arms only when he was already assured of his ascension to godhood)

Here's some relevant quotes:

Cowl straightened slowly. He'd gotten back to the very rear of the car's impact area somehow, and he must have been able to shield himself from the partial impact. As he straightened he wavered, then braced himself against a streetlight with one black-gloved hand.

Cowl was silent for a long moment in the rain. Drops fell off the end of my pistol in his gloved hand. Then he said, his voice pensive, "I do not perceive myself to be mad. But if I were truly mad, would I be able to tell?"

Cowl set the skull aside on the grass, then raised his hands above his head and let the sleeves fall back from his long, weathered arms covered in old scars. He began a chant in a low voice, steady and strong.

And here's this, because we're talking gloves:

So I was panting and sitting flat on my ass when the air in front of me wavered, and a dark, hooded figure stepped forward from out of nowhere, one hand extended, some sort of fine mesh that covered her outstretched palm flickering with ugly purple light.

"Be very still, Dresden," Kumori said, her voice soft. "If you try to move, I'll kill you."

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On another note, why Goethe?  Two things come to mind:  Goethe penned Der Erlkönig as well as a celebrated version of Faust.  I've always thought that this was a hint that Cowl made a Faustian bargain.

You can get bullets jacketed with steel, but usually they're covered with some copper alloy.  But then again, if you know you're going to be shooting someone who is fae empowered, you might pick steel.  Odds are a bullet fired by Kinkaid from a long distance would probably be jacketed, but it can go either way.

And, if Mab wanted to do some shenanigans with the bullet, she needs not to have affected it, she could put an illusion on Kinkaid to change his aim, or create a channel through the air to encourage the path of the bullet, and plan for the air to remain dense or not as needed for long enough even after the possible steel disrupts her magic...

It's basically impossible to tell one way or the other.

I'm not getting into the bullet's composition...again.  But instead of affecting the bullet, Mab only needed to rock the boat just a little, or something else to make Harry stumble just a bit.  Much easier than manipulating an object moving 1000FPS+ or the air in the path of it's trajectory.

FWIW, I'm not totally sold on Mab being Harry's puppetmaster.  That's not to say she doesn't manipulate him every chance she gets or that she's rarely successful in doing so.  Even so, it's an interesting theory.

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when harry and susan look through the records the items include a dagger, a sword, a brick and a vase. assuming that the dagger is the one big red used than where were the other artifacts and what were they used for? When Harry is in the chamber he sees the big altar in the centre, and that alone is enough to impress bob.

I'll throw out a few WAGs.  From what I've read, a sword is sometimes used in place of (or alongside) an athame in magic rituals [as a side note, Harry does pick up a non-obsidian sword at some point at Chicken Pizza; no idea if it was that one.]  I suppose the vase is for blood.  Or flowers.  You never know with vampires.  I think the brick was meant as a joke. 

With the exception of Mr. Ferro, every gift was meant to create a disturbance or doubt within the receiver.

If whatever bit of bright-and-shiny Ferro received was another "treacherous gift" we won't see the effects until the last few books of the series.

That sounded kinda Harsh - sorry.

I mean to say that as a person who works with data and stuff, it's very hard to cater to everyone, especially when they don't design their stuff to be easily insertable.

No harm, no foul.


FWIW, I've played around with wap, wap2, and imode on the forum.  Looking around, there is a Tapatalk mod that's available, as well as a mod/theme combination that automagically switches to an iPhone theme.  The former would require a paid mobile app to post (not to view) and latter apparently uses a third-party server to check for mobile devices, which probably makes it a less attractive option.

OTOH, an official mobile-friendly theme will apparently be in the works soon, so sayeth a dev.

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But that may be incidental, because I can't think of any reason Mab couldn't just cross over and mess with LC any time she felt like it, regardless of Harry's metaphysical link to her. Can anyone else think of a reason Mab couldn't mess with the model if she wanted to?

No.  Just wanted to add that Mab owns Harry's 'life, fortune, and future'...and I remember another statement of 'blood, bone, and breath' or something similar.  So, from that perspective, Mab wasn't messing with Harry's model of Chicago.  Mab was fixing her Little Chicago that she let [her] Harry build and keep in his apartment...that Mab let him live in.