Seems odd that Felipe is meant to find his own DoB within a couple of decades when he shouldn’t be able to impregnate her for centuries, he being too young at this point to achieve it.

How will there be “many more like Stan” when there’s only one Adele?

Also, do the children of “normal” Daughters of the Blood also have the ability to give birth to vampire offspring. Presumably, if they do then this new breed of vampires Odin & Del are bringing into being will also be able to.

I’m very interested to see what new changes, besides day walking, this new breed of vampires will receive. Will Del turn Eric & maybe Toller into day walkers with her blood too?

Sookie is still a puppet to Bill’s manipulations. I’d bet there’ll be carryover angst even after Bill is dead. I don’t see that she accomplished anything with either the conversation or in her half-assed participation in the execution. All the burden was placed on Eric while she stubbornly refused to let him do what he thought was appropriate. As I usually feel in most Eric & Sookie equations, she doesn’t deserve him, not the other way around, but if it makes him happy, what the hell.

She “was deliberately blind” is a very apt way to put it for nearly all versions of Sookie characters. I don’t see the need for this conversation. He won’t grasp anything she said here anymore than if she just publicly killed him with no conversation. Also, he wouldn’t have made that last request if he didn’t have something up his sleeve to get to her one last time. It still feels like she gives Bill as much as or more weight in her life than she allows Eric, who she (as most Sookies) perpetually works to twist & contort to her ideals instead of giving him the respect she demands of him.

I’m having BIG doubts that Sookie will allow Bill to be killed, no matter her musings in this chapter. Somehow Sookies always find some dumb ass way to think he should live — and then of course he inevitably finds yet another way to betray her. Gold stars if he is actually made dead in this story AND that she doesn’t go all maudlin & beat herself up for it afterwords.

Where did all that power Sookie was channeling go that she didn’t zap the dark elf who grabbed her at the end of the chapter?

Sookie & Eric saying the hand fasting vows to each other at the end was a nice addition. Their daughters though seem to have habits of omitting important information that their future mates should know before the ceremony. Based on his own commitment to the Aesir, I doubt that Toller would balk, but he still should have been told about the deal the two goddesses made before the hand fasting.

I’d expect ole Stan to be getting frustrated & antsy waiting for Del’s return. Watching Toller marry Kristen when he & Del were together first would be a little like rubbing salt in the wound. I’m betting he’ll be less relieved than he anticipates once he has to start dealing with sharing his wife three ways.

Off topic for this chapter, but I started wondering how Del’s situation with three mates is supposed to work when it comes to children. With the way she was raised, it doesn’t seem like she’d be the kind of parent who would want to leave her child/children behind with their fathers as she travels from realm to realm. The male mates also seem unlikely to be the type to allow their children to leave & live under another male’s roof. I don’t see Ciaran being okay with his mostly fairy child living under a vampire’s roof and it doesn’t seem likely that any part vampire offspring with Stan would even be allowed to enter the fairy realm, much less live in Ciaran‘s home ever.

Having any children with Odin would be a whole other set of problems. He’d likely be lenient as to where the child could stay as Del needed to move between realms, but how does a half god child behave in realms where the majority likely have less power than the child? I wonder about Odin’s wife’s reaction too. I haven't read anything that indicated Frigg is a jealous woman & jealousy would seem less likely given what I’ve read of Viking culture & mythology, but it still seems like something Del should have asked about in terms of any possible children.

When you think about how difficult things can be when human couples split & child care must be shared over multiple homes, that sounds so small & simple by comparison to multiple children by one woman & three different men, all of different species. Should be interesting...

Shame on Ciaran! He’s as sneaky & unethical as Niall. He’s using his power & working to influence her feelings toward him while she’s been helpless & need. It’s the same sort of taking advantage as we see in doctors, ministers/‘holy men,’ professors, etc. I call sleaze on Ciaran & hate to think of Del with him. Taking advantage in the way he has been is a type of rape even if/when she “chooses” him because he used undue influence & a position of power over her to make it happen. I guess I’ve been assuming her Fae attachment would end up being with the mysterious flute player she’s heard for years when at Stan’s ranch.

The Odin thing — I guess it could be a similar thing, but it feels different. He’s not been manipulating her for weeks, helping her to heal. Odin didn’t just help her get past her wounds, he actually gave her some of his own power & healed her. He’s also giving her a way as well as his acceptance & acquiesce for her to commit to two other mates, one vampire & one fae (rather than Ciaran, who like Niall, is sneakily trying to convince her to remain only in Fae, deserting her family & Stan for their own prejudices & whims). As for attraction, how’s she realistically gonna resist the appeal of one of the few beings who surpasses even her father in strength, power, knowledge, craftiness, beauty, & sex appeal?

Eeeeeeeewww! Blech! Bad Penny Bill again. Nothing good is likely to come of that. Can’t say much better for Felipe or Victor. I also wonder about the lewd vamp eyeing Zeline at the entrance.

Hmmmm... I trust Niall to handle Adele’s healing, but I’m betting he’s gonna pull some shit while he’s got her in the Fae realm. She’s pledged, but not yet married to Stan. Assuming Niall’s choice for her husband is still willing after the rape, I’m betting Niall will still try to keep her away from Stan regardless of admitting that Stan does love her.

Poor Eric. He’s never a happy guy when things are out of his control.

I predict a return of Pain-in-the-Ass Sookie nearly immediately. Del is going to be out of her reach so she’ll want to smother Kirsten with motherly attention. Pretty sure that won’t go over well with Kirsten. Plus, even though I don’t quite understand what’s happening, if Kirsten is becoming more vampire, will Sookie be safe?

Clearly Jacques is as stupid, selfish, & greedy as canon Alcide. What a complete & total asshole to try to persuade her to have intercourse with him while knowing he was going to betray her feeling soon. (Very, very like canon Alcide!)

It’s odd that someone as intelligent as Kirsten could be that clueless about who is really is for two years. I get her stubborn but foolish teenage rebellion — been there, done that, still have the scars to remind myself of it many decades later, but two years is a freakishly long time to remain that self-deluded.

Looks like Jacques is as clueless as his canon father Alcide. As a Supe himself he’d have to be an idiot to believe that Kirsten could ever be his mate. Even if she wasn’t required to marry an *appropriate* *vampire* her father would end Jacques before he’d allow that marriage (as would Felipe, Pam, Niall, ...).

Wonder what that familiarity in the back of her mind connected to Toller is...

If Stan is even half as vampire style possessive as canon Eric then I don’t see how he will be able to actually accept & tolerate Adele having a another man’s child, regardless of that other man’s species. Theoretically, in the modern age, she could have artificial insemination to conceive the Fae offspring, but I’d guess there would be some old magical requirement that won’t allow for anything but the old fashioned route to pregnancy. I predict that Stan’s hormones & lust in the moment are deluding him about what he’ll really be able to cope with in the future.

It’s bizarre of Adele to make that magic exchange with Stan and then tell him she was afraid it might change him only after it was too late. She already had first-hand knowledge that just her blood changes things for vampires. She should have informed him of the risks before he consented & she made the exchange. He likely would have accepted his anyway, but not giving him an honest choice was wrong.

The lack of open, honest communication & self-awareness in these two doesn’t bode well for their future. They’re letting their attraction & excitement override wisdom & rational thought. I predict stormy seas later.

Very nicely done.