Molly gets a sense that Maeve is just bad at her job, almost remarkably so. There's a part of her, and it might be the same part that found Broken Seeker a little charming that wants to help the Winter Lady break out of her shell.
Lol.
I find the idea of Molly mentoring the Winter Lady to be more than a little hilarious.
Well worth doing, though; she's arguably more important than Emma-O.
It sounds more like the sort of hostage game Winter has gotten accused of previously in the thread. Winter could go in and take what they want, but it'd be expensive and probably end with a new front they don't want to manage themselves.
What's curious about this is that the vamp is willing to play chicken. I wonder if he knows that Sandra is connected to Nemesis in the first place, because Winter's reason not to pay the price goes away if they think the gate is going to open anyway and they can't be sure that the reason she's being hunted is because of something she did instead of something she's doing.
If he was aware I'd have thought the guy would straight have her killed to avoid the headache.
Could be.
The lack of even a diplomatic response altogether sounds more like there are.....Complications(TM) to her presence.
If the Vampire is characterized as he was in DFRPG, he's pretty much devoted to the role of keeping Las Vegas alive and prosperous in the service of his boss. Im not even sure he drinks blood; the job provides enough mojo.
And it doesnt escape me that the Way that Gorfels used to come to Illnois, the one that opens near Old Man Mathews house?
Is from Nevada.
The county jailhouse looks... like you would expect an abandoned jailhouse dating back more than a hundred years to look, which is to say grunge creepy, between the grey walls, the patched up roof and the crooked storm-drain. If that place isn't haunted you I'm a Taylor Swift fan.
"From where came the wizard Gorfel who passed this way on the seventh of the month?"
You do not get anything like the long conversation you got on the matter of soulgazes, just a flash of a dark grey peak above scrub-land that stretches beside a glittering city, a glimpse and a name. "Clippy search Frenchman's Mountain, Nevada please."
The answer is as instantaneous as it is through: "The peak lies on a north to north-northeast trending ridge about 2000 feet above the nearby valleys. Sunrise Mountain lies 3.6 miles (5.8 km) to the northeast adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base. The north end of the McCullough Range about 12 miles (19 km) to the south has a parallel trend. The River Mountains lie to the southeast..."
Frenchman's Mountain is only 12 miles from the center of Vegas, and overlooks the city.
I have my doubts about it being a coincidence that Sandra appears to have fled to a city that our first villain used as, at a minimum, a waypoint when he was coming to Chicago.
Not only Winter. He supposedly has enough power to play at more or less independent politics within the Red Court too. Because main Red political direction is to use or work with at least some minor outsiders. Even if they try to cover it up. So Dragon, aka Dracul, either playing a very long game of double agent or doesn't give much of a shit about Red King and his plans.
Not really.
If the QM is drawing on the original DFRPG scenario, his allegiance is to Vegas and the spirit underneath it.
We know that Red Court is in some way in bed with Outsiders. The question is how loyal Dragon is to his sin eater landlord. We might want to talk to Broken Seeker a bit before heading in.
More likely, we need to talk to Bob first.
If there's a big-ass spirit living under that city as its City-Father or guardian, I doubt its unknown to the spirits.
) Either way Winter does not want the hassle according to Maeve and they really do not want the upkeep.
