Or is a 3rd party trying to stoke the fire, and made it look that way?
Fair warning - this is a lot of my speculation and definitely a TLDR if you are not interested in the 'politics' of what happened in the latest chapter/may happen in the next chapter.
I absolutely believe that there is a third party involved but not sure how, re:
Finnabair's murder.
For all we know, one of the Alfar hotheads could be in league with the third party (the way it seems some of the Templars are).
Finnabair's sudden turnaround from a human hating Alfar (
being Medb's duaghter helped to counter Medb's efforts at peace) to someone not easily manipulated by that/those Alfar hotheads decided to let the third party know and arrange an ambush - by Templars or made to look like Templars.
This would be a two-fer - two birds with one stone - kill Medb's daughter and silence a new voice of reason that could have upset the third-party plans for war.
This is some very good intrigue, where we do not know who to trust among at least some of the Templars (is their leadership chain of command compromised??).
If there are Alfar working at the Pussy Twister in Neverwhere - it seems at least some of them have chosen? to leave Alfheimr for reasons currently unknown.
Were they banished or are they gathering information for the Alfar or the third party much like Nightingale was?
It seems likely that 'rogue' Alfar are working against peace in Neverwhere and other worlds - even Earth.
We have almost no idea about where Fiona fits into all this except that she sides with the MC (at least on her path) - she even escorted the MC to help protect/watch over him when he went to meet Medb and get his father back (and she did it so well that not a single Templar noticed).
So is she Alfar, dark Alfar - SvartAlfar - perhaps (if I did not butcher the spelling..
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) who chose to leave Ireland or the portal that linked Ireland to Neverwhere and her world what could be a thousand years or more in the past?
It makes me wonder if her cabin in the woods is near a little-known entrance to Neverwhere and the '80 minutes to Paris' via train (Kaija and MC conversation during the first trip to Neverwhere) is a few hours 'jog' (Fiona speed) to reach Ireland/a portal to the home world of the SvartAlfar.
There are so many interesting possibilities for the next chapter and beyond!
Cheers!!
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