Hounded Re-read - Week 4

Here are the links to date: intro, week 1, week 2, and week 3.  This weeks entries are being hosted by InTheClosetBibliophile here.  Read on!

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1. Just after Atticus is shot, Oberon has to "ninja" his way out of the shop and into Hal's Beamer (with the icky air freshener). Have you ever been in a situation where you had to "ninja" your way out and try not to be discovered? If so, what happened?

I'm pretty sneaky, so I've probably done something like this before, but that's not what comes immediately to mind.  When I was about 17, I was coming back into the house at about 2am (no worries, it was the summer). I wasn't "sneaking" in, per se, but I didn't turn on any of the lights b/c I'd lived in the house for a decade, I could get around in the dark.  Unfortunately, I wasn't taking into account my sister's brand new toy poodle puppy.  As I was walking through the living room in the gap between the couch and the coffee table, I suddenly hear this horrible "Uuuuuuurk, uuuuuuurk, uuuuuuurk, uuuuuurk!!!".  I remembered the dog, and I was certain I had shattered its spine or something equally horrific.  Luckily, when I turned the light on I caught just a tiny flash of him sprinting around the corner back to my sister's bed room, so in the end I guess I must have stubbed his toe.

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2. Atticus's main goal through a large portion of the book is not only protecting Oberon, but also protecting the sword. You are now living in a paranormal world and you need a weapon! What weapon do you choose and what can it do?

OK, I'm going to cheat a bit again on this one and give two alternatives.  If my goal is survival in the kinds of situations Atticus constantly finds himself in, the answer is obviously the Golden Gun.  Sure, in the movie it's just a gun that fires poison-coated bullets, but in the video game it's a one-shot, one-kill weapon. I would find some dwarf to make a supernatural version of the Golden Gun, where as long as the bullets hit any part of any creature (including pesky, grudge-holding deities), they die.  However, if my goal is to look awesome, then again there is only one answer: lightsaber.  Next question.

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3. To recharge and heal after being shot, Atticus sleeps naked, tattoos to the earth, in a patch of grass near the Civic Center in downtown Scottsdale. Where is the weirdest place you have ever slept?

This one's easy.  I was once forced to spend the night in the train station in Bratislava, Slovakia.  On a bench.  With six college girls for whom I was responsible.  And then at 3am a very large man in a military uniform started screaming at everyone in the station to get out, and I was faced with the idea of wandering the streets of Slovakia with these girls.  Luckily, a lady on the bench next to me spoke enough English to explain that they were kicking out people who didn't have tickets, and luckily we did.  That was one of the few "all-nighters" I've pulled in my life that didn't involve anything fun.

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4. We finally find out some very interesting information about Granuaile and I don't know about you, but I certainly wasn't expecting to find that she's sharing her head with someone else. What about you, did you expect anything along those lines? If not, what were you expecting concerning Granuaile?

I assumed from the very beginning that there was more to Granuaile than just "hot bartender for Atticus to ogle over his fish and chips".  However, I was not expecting a modified Professor Quirrell situation.  I figured she might end up being more than meets the eye, or she might just be a love interest down the road.  Can't keep typing without spoilers. :)

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5.  Laksha is a witch, a truly evil one at that for many of the things she's done in the past. However, she's supposedly seen the error of her ways. Do you think she really has? Would you be willing to trust her? Do you think Atticus is smart to have decided to trust her to help him with the "other" witches?

Look, witches be crazy.  I feel like we've covered that almost every week.  That being said, sometimes you have to make a tactical decision and remember that "the enemy of my enemy will probably help me mess up my enemy".  Laksha has no real attachment to the AZ.  There's nothing for her there that she can't find in hundreds of other places, and those places don't have the only surviving druid to contend with.  My thought was that Atticus can feel relatively safe in dealing with her to neutralize his more immediate concerns.  However, never forget the first sentence of this answer.