Key word, "deal" which means the healing won't come for free.  Now Molly also loves Harry on a number of levels, so for his happiness she might not ask for much in return... Then again, there may be a "Fae Pay Scale," or in other words, healing comes at a high price and Molly might not have many options.

Yes. If we learned anything from Cold Case it's that Molly's own wants come second to Winter Law. (See: inability to tell Carlos what she was up to) I flinched when I saw Harry make an open-ended "I'll owe you one" deal with the Winter Lady. That was a spectacularly stupid unforced error, which will almost certainly come back to bite him in the rear.

Re: Murphy's physical condition...

Harry did say: "Unless you want to get Faustian."

Sure, Murphy said no quite firmly when they were sitting on the couch with no idea what's coming. Watching a titan and an army of fomor coming to kill everyone in Chicago is something quite different, though.

I wonder what kind of deal Molly might be able to offer her, for a limited-time healing just to get her back in the fight for one night?

Hendricks and Mac having a good old chinwag.

Seen from Murphy's PoV as she translates the "Martian" grunts and gestures, in the style of Aftermath.

Harry using the Athame to cut a pizza into slices for the Guard.

Rudolph being caught by the Wild Hunt led by Kringle and forcibly transformed into a Reindeer for the rest of his life.

So much these.

Harry looking at a beautiful woman for the first time and totally ignoring her boobs.

The very definition of True Love.

Toot eating celery.

Also the very definition of True Love.

Lara, unlike her father sees use in humans above and beyond food. She started hiring competent rather than pretty people, Riley a case in point and is far less prejudiced than most of her Court towards humans.

Yes. But when a Naagloshi attacks Chateau Raith, the injured competent-not-pretty mercenaries don't get rushed to the hospital, they get rushed to her sisters' rooms to be used as disposable health potions.

I suppose she's "less evil" than the Red Court, the fomor, her father, and Jeffery Epstein (at least Lara's victims are over the age of consent), but that's a pretty low bar.

There must be some limit or Nic would just curse all the Archangels to die.

Or the Knights. Or their families.

Yeah. I'd guess there's a complicated series of conditions -- like the fact that Harry involved himself in fighting Nic's plot, even after being warned off by everyone on both sides. Perhaps the partially-waylaid prophecy was necessary to maneuver Harry into the conditions that would make him a legitimate target of the Curse.

Seems like a good place to ask this, I only have the audio book atm, so in chapter 8 when Thomas is trying to speak, it sounds like the second time he says "it's" before he can't complete the 'Justine', is this accurate or I'm I just hearing a slur?

The text reads: "Ha'ay." and "Junghg. S'Jnngh."

I think it's probably meant to be "Harry... Justine. It's Justine."

That is fascinating. If Justine were a changeling that could make her a double or even triple agent. That would add a whole new dimension to her scenes.

It wouldn't be the first time. Remember the original triple-agent, the oh-so-forgettable Martin.

Ah. You don't mean "ignore" like not notice or be in denial about it. You mean that some of the other Carpenter kids might have inherited magical potential, realized it, and then made the conscious choice not to develop it.

That's plausible, I guess.

Re: Chichen Itza blackout -- Trauma is definitely plausible. Remember that we're not reading a third-person-omniscient account of events. This is Harry writing down what happened, telling the story as he remembers it.

Or it could be something else. Hard to know what, though. Perhaps he dug so deeply into the Winter Mantle to fight off the Red King's Will attack that he wasn't himself at all for a brief time. (After, Eb says, "Hell of a hard thing to do." and he responds, "It wasn't hard. Just cold.") Remember that he was acting on a bargain he made with Mab -- if he couldn't bring himself to do the deed, to cut out Susan's heart, it's possible that the Bargain took over his free will and made him do it. He bargained for the power and the time to save his daughter, and he believed that this was the only way to do it.

Charity swore off her magic though and it faded, however the genes for it remained, and Molly inherited them.  Now it is interesting that so for the rest of the Carpenter kids either didn't inherit the trait or are ignoring the fact that they have talent.

Molly's the oldest, though. She was conceived (and maybe born) while the magic was still fading. The other kids would have the same genetics, but much less pre-natal exposure.

I think there's zero chance of the other kids "ignoring" magic -- after almost losing Molly in an incredibly traumatic episode that saw Charity throwing on chainmail and marching to the heart of winter, Michael and Charity will be watching the other kids for any sign. (Heck, I'd expect that *Molly* has been watching to other kids for any sign, and there's no chance she'd miss it.)