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| Nalini Singh - Shards of Hope |
- "a chilling conspiracy that spans all three races"
- "a shadowy enemy has put a target on the back of the Arrow squad"
- "Aden and Zaira awakening wounded in a darkened cell, their psychic abilities blocked"
Who is this shadowy enemy?
Who is powerful enough to capture and wound the two Arrow leaders?
My Number One Suspect is ... *drum roll* ... S.U.R.P.R.I.S.E. ... Ming LeBon. He'd have the martial mind and ressources and power to plan and execute a chilling conspiracy spanning all three races and capture, wound and jail Aden and Zaira and block their psychic abilities. On the other hand, why capture and not kill them right away? So either he didn't do it himself but had some of his people do it, or it wasn't that finely planned an operation and more of a haste op with putting them away to finish them off (a little) later. Another reason for Ming is that he surely wont just accept that Kaleb took over the Net and is the de facto leader now.
Suspect Number Two is .... Shoshanna Scott. Where is she and what is she doing? We don't know that much about her or whether she is capable of pulling of such an op, but she isn't just rolling over and accepting Kaleb's leadership either.
Suspect Number Three is .... there one?
As to the rest of the former Psy Council, neither Nikita Duncan, Anthony Kyriakus nor Kaleb Krychek have any real reasons to eliminate the Arrows. They are all on the Ruling Coalition with the Arrows and have some kind of a profitable working relationship with them.
Further I can't see the Human Alliance turning against the Arrows, neither the changelings or the Forgotten.
Why "put a target on the back of the Arrow squad" at all?
Yeah why? Someone has to feel threatened by so many assassins and deadly operatives on the loose. If Mind still wants Vasic, he might theorize that Aden's death would break Vasic and the bond between them and make Vasic open to ... manipulation? reason? corruption? vengeance?
The other viable option is that someone wants to still get to the E's and as the new priority of the Arrow Squad is to protect the E's, that could also have put a target on their back.
"they find themselves in a harsh, inhospitable landscape far from civilization. Their only hope for survival is to make it to the hidden home of a predatory changeling pack that doesn't welcome outsiders."
Where are they? harsh, far from civilization and hidden predators ... It would fit for the Snow Dancer den, hidden deap in the Sierra Nevada, far from civilization. It could as well be anywhere else, but apart from Snow Dancer and Dark River we only now more about the Falcons and their place could be harsh and inhospitable in the heat of summer.
If I consider Judd the den doesn't make that much sense. Also most senior soldiers know about Aden and might know how he looks like from the Anchor Protection Op. Snow Dancer has other dens, so it could be one of those smaller dens.
But why would Ming or Shoshanna have a mysterious prison on Snow Dancer or Dark River land? Wouldn't they have it closer to their home base?
A prison on Snow Dancer land only makes sense if the shadowy enemy wanted Aden and Zaira to escape and get themselves killed-by-changeling to start a Psy/Changeling war.
One last point: "the violent, and the insane, and the irreparably broken…like Zaira"
What kind of ability has Zaira? She is the leader of the Venice Arrows, those outside the Psy Net. She is capable of making independent decisions, that's why she was appointed their leader. ... I recently reread Slave of Sensation and Sascha mentions a Transmutation ability. So far we never again heard of it, but would Transmutation be so violent and insane? Maybe Judd's TK cell ability falls under Transmutation.
For more check: http://nalinisingh.blogspot.co.at/2014/10/cover-love-shards-of-hope.html
