I do not think Karen is dead at the moment. I expect them at least to have some happiness together before it is ripped away. Just to make it worse. But Murphy is going to suffer, just to make Harry suffer.
They will have it for maybe the first twelve chapters of the book or so... Then hard headed Murphy
I predict will not heed warnings from Harry or anyone else that she isn't physically ready for this fight... Or she is but falls protecting Harry.. She dies and Harry suffers, he is grieving, seriously grieving.. If they were together, Christmas Eve would be at his place or hers, they'd be fighting about how best to put the bike together with Murphy taking over with a wise ass comment...
As Mab explained it is her duty. Harry is taking part in a winter festivity, he is actually helping fairy that way. Of course Mab wants to keep all the important things of christmass alive like the tree and santa and gift giving. Gift giving is an important ritual.
And Harry is Mab's consort. How can she not give Harry a present at christmass? and how can she miserly about it? She is the liege, she has to give, this is the occasion.
She hasn't before now.... Plus she is giving the gift to Maggie, not Harry, no strings attached..
Apparently he got a flatpack or something like that. We in Holland just go to the bike shop around the corner and by an assembled one.
It is the same in America, plus if it is a first bike, it won't be very complicated, most likely one speed, brakes, and training wheels..
This is Maggie's family as well and since small favor it is also Harry's family in a sense. It is quite understandable that Harry and Maggie celebrate christmass there wherever they are living at the moment.
Yes, but not if Harry was with Murphy now... At the very least, as I said, she'd be beside him telling
how to put the bike together, then taking over and being a bit smug, in a good way because Harry
feels foolish because he failed.
Not Kringle's fault. As mentioned in Skin Game the island was not an easy place to deliver for Kringle.
And really Kringle just likes Harry. Of course he gives him a gift at the only time he can do so without problems. Harry just has to be nice of course. Being naughty will really bring extra problems from now on....
Not true, if Kringle wanted to give Harry a gift, he could have gotten on the island... Nothing is impossible for Kringle on Christmas.
Ramirez, Butters, Bill and Georgia, Elaine, ....
I do not think Karen is dead at the moment. I expect them at least to have some happiness together before it is ripped away. Just to make it worse. But Murphy is going to suffer, just to make Harry suffer.
But I do not think he is in mourning for a special person necessarily. I think there were just a lot of casualties. We probably do not know most of them.
Harry would grieve over Butters etc, but not to this extent... This is on par with his grief [some guilt] when he felt Elaine was dead the first time, and his grief over Susan..
Eb I can sort of see, but with Murphy I don't think it'd be very relistic for Harry to be able to hide her name from his own thoughts. Mind, if she is dead Jim wouldn't publish this story with her name as one of the casualties as it's a major spoiler rather than the minor spoilers there are... but it seems too unrealistic to fly, to me.
Oh yes it is realistic, that kind of pain you try to avoid, that is part of the grieving process it is called
denial. If you've ever lost someone that close you avoid a lot of things, even photos of your loved one, just too painful to view.. Jim didn't publish name, true... However plenty of hints, lots of death, pain, and blood in Peace Talks, and someone very close to Harry dies...
This story takes place six months after Peace Talks. Unless a Whampire fetus requires a shorter gestation or Justine was into her fourth month when Thomas told Harry the news at the start of PT, it's too early for the baby to have been born yet.
Nope, the shock over Thomas, premature birth... Baby is viable at seven months or so..
