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"God knows," Thomas said. "All I know is that there was some sort of business between them. It developed into something else. Father was trying to snare her permanently, but she wound up being too strong for him to completely enthrall.She bore part of the responsibility for what was done to Harry.
"I was so arrogant. I laid too great a burden upon you to bear alone.In Changes Butcher set's up a Chekhov's gun, the meeting attended by Eb and Papa Raith where Margaret tries to sell her plan.
Which meant that I'd be an idiot not to check for razor blades and cyanide.I put in bold the hook that Mab hung Harry on. The lie is, she won't punish Harry for not taking the job, but she gives him the job anyway knowing that Titania will attempt to kill him.
"I decide which requests I fulfill and which I don't?"
"Even so."
"And if I refuse a request, there will be no reprisals or punishments from you."
She tilted her head and blinked her eyes, slowly. "Agreed. You, not I, will choose which requests you fulfill."
There was one land mine I'd found, at least. "And no more selling my mortgage, either. Or whistling up the lackeys to chastise or harass me by proxy. This remains between the two of us."
She laughed, and it sounded as merry, clear, and lovely as bells—if someone pressed them against my teeth while they were still ringing. "As your godmother did. Fool me twice, shame on me, wizard? Agreed."
Titania attacked him at the beginning of Small Favor before Mab even shows up. He's not her Emissary at that point. He has to take the job. He has no standing in Winter at that time. Titania may simply want him dead for Aurora. Those guys also chased various Carpenters... they are not emissaries.The tense of the phrase when Mab talks to Harry in the snow storm is past tense.
“I have chosen you to be my Emissary,” Mab said to me. “You will repay me a favor owed. You will find the Baron.Not I will choose, but I have chosen. Which is why the Gruff's attacked at Michael's.
“This is another point of contention between you and Titania.”This arc effectively ends when Titania gives up her quest for vengeance in Cold Days. It also has ramifications for Proven Guilty and helps explain why Mab is defending her borders.
“When one Court moves, the other perforce moves with it,” Mab said.
I croaked, “Titania wants Marcone dead?”
“Put simply,” she replied. “And her Emissary will continue to seek your death. Only by finding and saving the Baron’s life will you preserve your own.”
Fear not for your little warriors. They were your weapon, and the only one accountable for their actions will be you. Take their steel with you, and it will be enough."So Mab knew that, if given an opportunity, that Titania would take revenge.
Anger flared in my chest and shoved my brain aside on its way to my mouth. “That wasn’t our deal,” I snapped. “Our bargain stipulated that I would choose which favors to repay and that you would not coerce me.”
“I have not coerced you, nor dispatched any agent of mine to do so,” Mab continued, as if the break in the conversation had never happened. “Nonetheless, if you wish to survive, you will serve me. I assure you that Summer’s agents will not rest until you are dead.”Mab did indeed coerce him. She knew that naming him as Emissary would free Titania to attack him and that was the whole point. Mab lied. She named him Emissary before she asked him to serve. The term is fait accompli. Butcher deceived you by pulling a fast one. He expects you to ignore the implicit deception.
No. It has at its heart dishonesty. A lie is an out and out untruth. Misleading, even intentionally, is not lying.If you use a thesaurus it will become clear. The Fae and in particular Mab take advantage of a knowledge mismatch, what they know and what you think you know. The perfect example of this happens in Small Favor when Mab makes Dresden her Emissary before asking him to be one. He thinks he can say no without understanding the cost. This is a knowledge mismatch. She knows Titania is out to murder him. This is also a form or coercion. The lie is letting him believe that he has a choice.
Let us pretend magical ability can be quantified simply. All people can be classified on a scale from 1 (normals) to 10 (the Merlin).
Harry says:
"The White Council has inducted all wizards of a power level 6 or greater."
"I am a level 7"
One would usually assume Harry is part of the WC.
Well, he WAS. But he is not NOW.
But what did he say was untrue?
He WAS inducted.
He IS a 7.
He did not say "All wizards of power level 6 or greater ARE part of the WC" THAT would be a lie, as he was kicked out.
If he said "The WC screens wizards, and any they find of a level 6 or up are inducted" we are led to believe all level 6 and up are, or have been, part of the WC.
But Elaine is a 6.
But she flunked her tests and they think she's a 4. Harry knows this. But he tried to mislead you.
The Fae are heartless, soulless creatures. They ARE natural lawyers. They draw these distinctions. They let you believe what they want you to believe. Whether or not it is true.
It is part and parcel with the Fae "letter of the law" & hair-splitting attitude.Any deception has at it's heart, a lie. You can test this if you so choose. It just isn't explicit. If it were simple we wouldn't need lawyers.
Fae never flatly-deny that they deceive, or engage in subterfuge. But they do not engage in that part of deception comprised of positively-affirming a known un-truth -- that (and only that) is a "lie" (as language is used by the fae).
Here is an interesting thought-experiment: is there some language which doesn't have all these fine divisions of kinds-of-deception. If there's only one word for all that stuff, do faeries still deny that they do it? Do they then -- bound by their word -- not do any of it??!?
I don't think so; I think Mab is bound in this by Faerie Law. Mab is certainly not sovereign over Titania!
I offer a WAG:
In this quote, Mab isn't saying "I will never lie."
She is saying, "I'm not lying... yet. But I will... after the Stars fall from the sky."
i read that sentence in cold case, and bells and light bulbs were going off in my head. there's so much info here. but i just didn't see anyone commenting on this.They'll get to it eventually when they come up for air.