Dresden Files Reread - Fool Moon Chapter 14

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Harry regains consciousness in a hotel room. He's naked, except for the bandages on his shoulder, which
pretty much means that Tera undressed him and treated his wounds. She also cut the chain between the handcuffs. If Harry was able to sleep through all of that, including her pouring an entire bottle of hydrogen peroxide into the bullet wound, he must have been pretty out of it, and I'm amazed he's back on his feet without IV fluids. Either that wizardly healing factor has a better short-term rate of return than we've been lead to believe, or Tera used some kind of wolf magic to help things along. 

Tera comes in, and Harry makes a sex joke that goes completely over her head. I'm sort of curious how she's managed to be engaged to a human without picking up even basic colloquialisms, but I guess it's possible that they mostly just have serious and/or logistical conversations. If I remember correctly, they're planning to go just live in the woods, and they may be waiting to address any communication issues until MacFinn is out of the danger posed by his condition. 

Tera says it's near sunset, and they need to get moving son, but Harry doesn't want to go anywhere with her until she's answered some questions. He starts bombarding her with them, and she gets in his face, telling him that they will leave now. They make eye contact, but no Soulgaze follows. Since Harry hasn't ever Gazed her before, that means she doesn't have a human soul upon which he can Gaze. That means she's most likely a creature of the Nevernever, which makes him less inclined to trust her than ever. He asks why he should go with her, and she informs him that she's called the police, told them he's armed and acting erratic, and that given the week they've been having they're likely to shoot first and ask questions later. So he follows her to the car. 

On the way to wherever they're going, Harry gets into a bit of a paranoia spiral, wondering what exactly they want with him. He seems, against all reason, to think that Tera and MacFinn damaged the permanent circle themselves. One of the questions he asked was why they messed up the circle, not whether they did, and now he's wondering if they're trying to take out everyone who could repair it, starting with Kim. This line of thinking doesn't make a lick of sense, because if they didn't want MacFinn to be confined, they could as easily just...not use it? This never occurs to Harry, who eventually dismisses the idea on the basis that if Tera wanted him dead, she's had plenty of opportunity to kill him already. He also figures MacFinn is behind the murders that did occur during the full moon, and wonder if Tera did some of the others to take suspicion off MacFinn. This is really strange to me, because Tera notwithstanding, Alphas notwithstanding, MacFinn is cursed, and there's literally no reason to think he killed anyone on purpose. 

Eventually, they get to Wolf Lake Park, out in the suburbs. Tera, who can be totally silent when she wants to, is going out of her way to make noise, but Harry's too tired and stressed out to really think about why she's doing that. He makes more noise just walking than she does on purpose anyway. Suddenly, Tera gets caught in a snare, and MacFinn, although Harry hasn't yet realized that's who it is, punches Harry in the face, right where Murphy got him earlier, and pins him to the ground pretty effortlessly, despite Harry's best efforts to resist. 

Minor correction: Apparently I was spelling Tera's name wrong the entire previous post, and in every previous one in which she was mentioned. I apologize, and will use the correct spelling going forward. 

This was one of those logistical, transitional chapters about which there isn't a whole lot to say. Expect the next post sometime this weekend, when hopefully we'll finally get some answers. Until then, be gay, do crimes, and read all the things!