Well wasn't Maeve already infected when Leah was at Arctis Tor?
She must have been, because PG is when Maeve talks about Mab being crazy... in CD Harry and Fix talk about that as an example of Maeve lying.
Was she in ice? I thought she was pretending to be a statue. Perhaps she did become Nemfected? I don't know. Jim said Nemesis isn't all powerful, Mab may be too powerful for It to control her.
Whether Mab
could be infected or not, I'm certain she wasn't, for at least two reasons:
- if she was, reality would be either destroyed or much more Outsider-ridden than it is
- if she was infected at the time of PG specifically, she wouldn't have been trying to cure Lea of Nemesis
It seems like Mab really should be "infect-able", as I'm not sure the power gap between Lea and Mab is
that large, but OTOH if she is "infect-able", why did Lea mess with Maeve rather than going straight to Mab?
And Mab has the athame in DB. So maybe she really isn't vulnerable... who knows.
Maybe Mab is more powerful than I'm imagining... there is a WoJ that Mab vs the Erlking wouldn't even be much of a fight, but that the Erlking "could probably hand Molly her head" (IE - stronger than one of the Faerie Ladies). I tend to imagine Lea as closer to Mab than the Winter Lady in power, but could she win a fight vs the Erlking? Quite possibly not...