So now that Furthest Station is out long enough I'd like to ask what your take on the foxes is? Is the one Abigail talked to in WU one of them Peter heard her talking to in Furthest Station or are those different foxes? And do you think we'll see more of them in the main story? (excluding the comic's right now)
I think it’s fairly certain at this point the fox Abigail talked to in Whispers Underground was related to (or one of the same foxes) she talks to in The Furthest Station, and definitely not Reynard (side note: THANK FUCKING GOD). As to what they are exactly - they’re magical talking foxes, and if there’s an in-book explanation for why magical talking foxes it’s probably going to involve them moving into urban spaces and people noticing how clever they were getting.
Whether we’ll see more of them in the main story...I expect they’ll be mentioned, but it’s pretty obvious that the next comic run is going to pick up on something to do with them based on the title and cover art. I suspect they’re enough of a worldbuilding side note that the heavy lifting might happen there. TFS set up a minor mystery for them with the thing at High and Over House, and I would bet on that being resolved in the comic rather than a later book. But that’s mostly because there’s so much plot that could go in the books these days, something has to give somewhere. The comics have already been used to resolve a dangling book thread (Varvara).
