Ser Scot A Ellison

Is there enough oxygen for a primer cap to ignite cordite in the atmosphere of Mars? Not that I’d want to take that chance… but still.

But the Falconer or Gray King randomly happening upon the GB and their games doesn’t further the pathos of the story. Sabetha, inadvertently, giving that information to the Gray King or the Falconer… does.

The latter presumes Barsavi and the Spider are incompetent. Sabetha doesn’t even have to be malicious… just in cautious at the wrong moment.

Sabetha didn’t need to have any information about the GB’s current activities to say in a fit of anger, jealousy, or irritation that the “GBs aren’t sneak theives or upper story men they are a small gang of false facers ripping off the Camorri nobility with a ton of white iron in a vault beneath the Temple of Perelandro”. Once the Gray King knows the above he could set the Falconer on the GBs to learn more about their activities and as he learns more set his trap for Locke. The more I think about this the more it makes sense. The GBs trust each other absolutely so much so that they never even consider one of their number, even one no longer among them, either deliberately or accidentally giving away their games. Sabetha is the only one who was away from Camorr. She’s the only one who had need of cash. She’s the only one angry about how things were playing out, so angry she left the City. I think Sabetha, accidentally or purposely, set the Gray King onto the GBs and that we just haven’t gotten to that part of the story yet.

So… by that logic… the Gray King had someone in with the Spider to get that information. And if that’s the case why wasn’t the Spider jumping up and down on Locke’s balls? Either Locke and the other GB’s are successfully hiding their activities… or… the people who would like to shut them down, the Spider, Barsavi, etc… know whats going on and have some reason to allow it to continue. There were no leaks from inside the Camori GBs. As such it doesn’t make sense for the Gray King/Falconer to know about the GBs without there being a leak from within the GBs. The most logical source for the Gray King/Falconer’s information and desire to put the squeeze on the GBs is the member of the GBs who was no longer with the GBs… Sabitha. But Lynch doesn’t go there… at least not yet.

How? Without knowing to look at them… they were too quiet to notice. That was the whole point of their confidence games. Make the marks too ashamed to go for help. They over played their hand with the Salvara’s because they couldn’t have known they were fucking with the Spider’s favorite God child.

It just needed an organ sting (dum… Dum… DUM!!!…) to make it a little more hokey.

There are few “police unions” in SC.

That story is pretty big news in my locality.

Ummmmm… how is that even… possible?

I should know better than to get my hopes up when this thread appears…

Nichelle Nichols, Uhura, from the original Star Trek has passed.

Why, for the love of God, wouldn’t the Phoenix, given its size and crew complement, have more than one assent and decent vehicle for redundancy and safety’s sake?

I noticed that nugget too. TBOtW is really a necessary read for this series… and a great book besides.

Is Khendra’jaro not Hakatri’s son? He’s spoken of as Lilimakia’s brother… but he’s never mentioned as Hakatri’s son…

@Lord Varys

@Lord Varys

@Lord Varys

What the hell is the Red thing below the Castle? I’m almost finished and I still haven’t a clue as to what it might be…

I enjoyed Tenet a lot more when I had subtitles to watch with…

I skipped ahead and read to the end of Morgan/Nezeru’s story because I couldn’t resist.

Have we ever had Jiriki as a POV character before this book?

Danny is such a douchecanoe…