In the sixth chapter of\u00c2\u00a0The Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dilemma<\/i>, Kit explores the dark world with Ponch. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh, the dread that this chapter gives me, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S UNFAIR. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also kind of amazing because this sequence inspires awe in me while\u00c2\u00a0also<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0unnerving me. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a difficult thing to pull off. But Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s built the fear into this chapter by exploiting a fundamental rule of her own universe. We learned a few books ago that\u00c2\u00a0all<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0wizardry has a cost and often, that cost is physical. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way around it. You cannot create from nothing, you can not act without some sort of reaction.<\/p>\n
So the world that Ponch found and that Kit explores in chapter six is\u00c2\u00a0impossible<\/i>. Yet here it is, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to explain it. Perhaps the creepiest part of it is the instantaneous nature of it. When Kit thinks of something, that thing appears \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in complete detail \u00e2\u20ac\u201c immediately. It does not slowly construct itself. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just\u00c2\u00a0there<\/i>.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a spectacle, though, and I admit to getting lost in Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautiful prose as Kit created a new world with each step. WORLDS! HE CREATED\u00c2\u00a0WORLDS<\/i>, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL! They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so full and rich and vibrant, and you know, I could see myself getting addicted to the experience, too. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an impossibility come true, and not just in the sense that Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mind is able to spring to life:<\/p>\n But he seemed to be in some kind of peculiar rapport with this space that let him sense things he ordinarily wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, and the tearing basso wind-roar of superheated ions blasting upward past him was strangely satisfying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How can he have a\u00c2\u00a0rapport<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0with a place like this? I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny that this seems to be happening, but what does it mean? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a weird situation because Kit can feel something like this, yet he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to interact with these worlds in other ways. The acid rain on the stony planet doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kill him, but later on, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s able to have a conversation with an elephant\u00c2\u00a0he<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0created. An elephant that looks like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the original illustration from [an] old children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I should add.\u00c2\u00a0How<\/i>? How does he have the power to create these things???<\/p>\n And then, once he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s able to eliminate the blackness between worlds, this chapter becomes something else. It was transfixing. Beautiful. Haunting! What happens to those worlds when he leaves them? Did they only exist for the length of time it took Kit to make a step? I ask that question because there\u00c2\u00a0has<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to be a price paid for this. It cannot be this simple and this innocent!<\/p>\n Yet it seems like that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the case. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perplexing. We get confirmation that time passes differently in some of these worlds, but we also learn that Kit can remove something he created in that place and it keeps its mass. HOW??? Do the other worlds still have mass after he leaves them, too? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT ALL OF THIS. But not as concerned as I am for the next chapter because OH GOD.<\/p>\n And he ran down the stairs, exhilarated, to feed Ponch and have his own dinner.\u00c2\u00a0Just wait till she sees! Whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been going on with her, this is gonna take her mind off it.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n NO. NO IT IS NOT. HELP ME.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fgLDCI-QYE<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – I am now on Patreon<\/a>! There are various levels of support, from $1 up to whatever you want! You’ll get to read a private blog, extra reviews, and other such rewards. I POST A LOT OF CUTE PHOTOS, OKAY. Think of it like a private Tumblr blog that only SPECIAL PEOPLE get to read.<\/b> In the sixth chapter of\u00c2\u00a0The Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dilemma, Kit explores the dark world with Ponch. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Young Wizards.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,510],"tags":[513,511],"class_list":["post-3985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-wizards-dilemma","category-young-wizards","tag-diane-duane","tag-mark-reads-young-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– I have updated my list of conventions and events for the remainder of the year and much of next year.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Check the full list of events on my Tour Dates \/ Appearances page.<\/a>
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