level of defense

Q: Two part question: Were Fix and Lily ever in a romantic relationship and how does the Summer Lady mantle react to forward advances (re: Cold Case spoilers)?
A: Fix and Lily were very much a brother-sister relationship dynamic (except for on the solar high holidays, and that was ritual stuff). Fix and Sarissa, though, have a secret romance going that they're trying to hide from Titania, and half of Summer is trying to get them together and half of Summer is trying to get them caught in front of Titania, but no one can tell the Queen directly.
It's like a romcom over there.
The Summer Lady's mantle's defense mechanism is a lot more gentle, and possibly more apt for romcoms--the would-be lover becomes inert. It looks like they drop into an enchanted sleep. Depending on the depth of the darkness of their intent, they get a different level of sleep. A generally-benign overstep means you'll wake up with a headache a day later. Something darker means you're gonna be down for a few hundred or thousand years--and the Lady might just have you tossed in a woodchipper meanwhile.
Carlos got a fairly gentle treatment from the Winter Mantle, from a generally benign overstep: He lived, with intact genitals.


2020 Reddit AMA (https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/iekfx9/comment/g2hghtp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)