“Three?” I blurted. “I had to fight for my life through Arctis Tor and slug it out with an Elder Phobophage just to earn one favor!”
Mab’s eyes swiveled to me. “And you were repaid appropriately for your deeds.”
“I got a doughnut!”
“It is hardly my concern if you wasted your favor upon something so frivolous,” Mab said.
What the hell is this suppose to represent?
Well, except for the fact that the favor Harry got was from the Summer Court. Not sure Mab would have been required to fulfill anything.And the doughnut was requested at a most opportune time, in way that saved his life.
Well, except for the fact that the favor Harry got was from the Summer Court. Not sure Mab would have been required to fulfill anything.
Interesting that Harry & Murphy have sex (although it's possible they didn't go all the way since we didn't read it) right before he might need true love protection from Laura. Now to wait and see if he has it.I don't know what else he has to be smug about.
I want to know who the heck set the svartalves’s embassy on fire.My money is on Thomas.
My money is on Thomas.Thomas is getting accused. I doubt he actually did it.
I hope at some point Harry reminds Lara what happened to the last person Harry fulfilled a favor to the Winter Court for. Thinking about how faeries work, Harry was lucky to get rid of the favor from the Summer Court without getting more entangled or destroyed in the process. Morgan didn't survive by cashing his favor in. Harry did. Who used it more wisely?
Interesting that Harry & Murphy have sex (although it's possible they didn't go all the way since we didn't read it) right before he might need true love protection from Laura. Now to wait and see if he has it.
Question, how many times in your life do you get true love protection? Now Harry got protection that lasted for years from Susan.Justine's protection seems to renew on a pretty regular, if not daily basis. That said, the number of relationships is probably small and I can see the Winter Mantle making it hard to gain protection. There's an element of supernatural coersion there that could qualify in the same way Luccio's coercion or Billy/Georgia's it can't be truw love while they're married to someone else thing. Harry is Mab's consort after all.
It could be little Maggie's talents are awakening, and she is a chip off the old block, doing KABOOM fire magic like her daddy. Ain't it cute? ::) She is safe though, Mouse would see to that.
Yes, it was a summer favour. That confused me too. Except maybe he meant generally a favour from the fae.
I also think Bob may have mention something about Harry kind of being married to Mab. I wonder if Mab protects Harry from being eaten by a wampire.
Thomas is getting accused. I doubt he actually did it.
Taken with the trailer, one of the favors will be to rescue Thomas from the White Council, something Harry would have done in any event, but this would allow him to do with the full power of the Winter Knight Mantle behind him.
Mab has given Harry a small part of her power. I wonder if Lara taking a bite out of Harry would be like us trying to chew through ice. We could do it for a while but our teeth would break eventually.
Also look at what Molly did to poor Carlos. I don't think Thomas would've come out of that much better.
Justine's protection seems to renew on a pretty regular, if not daily basis. That said, the number of relationships is probably small and I can see the Winter Mantle making it hard to gain protection. There's an element of supernatural coersion there that could qualify in the same way Luccio's coercion or Billy/Georgia's it can't be truw love while they're married to someone else thing. Harry is Mab's consort after all.
No, it doesn't, that was the point of her having same sex sex back in Ghost Story. Any sex killed her protection so she could then have sex with Thomas. The sex act with someone else kills the true love protection from the White Court. My question is, one can fall in love more than once, is it always considered "true love?"Obviously not always given that Harry loved Luccio, even if she didn't love him. (Though that's an interesting question, would Luccio have been protected?) but there's no reason to think you only get one True Love in your life. Even if that other person is Murphy.
Obviously not always given that Harry loved Luccio, even if she didn't love him. (Though that's an interesting question, would Luccio have been protected?) but there's no reason to think you only get one True Love in your life. Even if that other person is Murphy.
I would not be surprised if Maggie was the one doing the fire
I understood that the couple needs to share True Love for protection to kick.
About the chapter itself:
I would not be surprised if Maggie was the one doing the fire. Magically, not a kitchen problem that would be probably easy to extinguish.
As Harry, I am wondering what Lara did to win 3 favors. Perhaps she did something to Fix, weakening Summer.
I found quite out of character for Mab to volunteer information about why Harry has a different color for his shield. We have been told many times that knowledge is power. Why gave it for free?
Molly's issue is definitely an issue unique to the ladys. I totally agree. I was just using that as an example of the mantles' having a defense mechanism.
Probably because it wasn't really worth much on it's own. Now, if Lara had followed that segue into asking what that entity was... that is far more valuable information.Most people in the books seem to be secretive-unless.
What? Mab does not know about Thomas and Harry being brothers?
We don't know (as far as I recall), but I'm not sure that Lara knows either. The White King *didn't* pick up on it (it was Arianna), and I don't think Harry goes around telling people that.From Small Favor.
“Nonsense,” Mab said. “If you died, I would simply recruit your brother. He would be well motivated to seek revenge upon your killers.”If Lara knows it hasn't been in the text.
A little cold feeling shot through me. I hadn’t realized that Mab knew who he was.
Mab knows about Thomas. She brought it up in chapter 46 of Small Favor, after Harry talks with Uriel. She said if Harry were killed she would offer the winter night position to his brother.Thank you! I thought so-
Either Lara knew about Eb and Thomas or was in a position to know due to her proximity to Thomas, her father and Maggie Snr. This info would only have become useful in obtaining a favour once Lara was aware of Harry being offered the position of Winter Knight, and capable of winning a favour from Mab. Mab wouldn’t have made a secret of the offer, so as to elicit exactly this type of information being offered and to get leverage over Harry. It worked, shading Harry towards Mab offer.
Mab GIVING information about Demonreach to Lara though, may have resulted in Lara inadvertently wasting a favour. In technical terms Lara may have ‘had her doughnut’, on that one. Lara may end up banking on a favour she has already used.
What reason would Lara have to assassinate The Merlin or other Senior Council Member? Except for the knowledge that Luccio may have given him, about Thomas mother, but the Merlin may already be using this knowledge to get rid of Harry, so Thomas was intending to assassinate the Merlin, but the Merlin was already trying to set Thomas up to look as a potential assassin and bait for Harry.
That exchange between Lara and Mab makes me wonder how Harry's relationship with demon reach has changed him, and to what degree Harry can use power from Demon Reach when he isn't on the island.
The question I was waiting for Harry to ask was, "What if she asks me to break your accords?" but he was too dumb to ask that. I wonder if there could be a favor exchange going on as part of this book - Mab asks Lara to get someone gacked and she uses Thomas for the job earning Mab's favor, then uses said favor to get Harry to get Thomas off the hook for said gacking….