In the seventeenth chapter of\u00c2\u00a0The Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dilemma<\/i>, Nita tells Kit the truth. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing to me what an outside perspective can do to help change my mind. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spent so much time in Dairine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head, and even I admit that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a logic to her choices here. Duane has come up with a dilemma that practically anyone could understand. What are we willing to do to save someone we love?<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important that Duane opens this chapter with Dairine because I now realize what a hint it was towards Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ultimate decision. When she brings up the possibility of giving up her wizardry to save their mom, Nita is honest with her sister. And Dairine is honest right back at her. What does she ask?<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you sure it would work?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dairine said after a while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Even after learning that literally everything that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d shared would disappear from Nita\u00c2\u00a0and<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0Dairine, Dairine says:<\/p>\n
When she looked up, her face was wet. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you were sure\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
She doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny Nita the option. She just cares about the\u00c2\u00a0certainty<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0of the chance. It was heartbreaking to read Dairine tell Nita that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d miss her, but it was also her way of saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d What else did Nita need? If we think of this chapter in those terms, then it makes a whole lot of sense that Nita would argue so vehemently with Kit. Yes, she wanted his perspective, but I also don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe she was ready to truly accept it.<\/p>\n
And gods bless Kit for trying. He brought up a lot of things I had no considered, namely this:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neets, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not thinking straight right now. You even missed something as simple as the mechanism the Lone One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s using to hide inside Pralaya. How can you be so sure about your thinking on everything else?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a frightening thing because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 oh my god, what if Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s internal narration\u00c2\u00a0was<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0affected by the Lone One? What if all those desires she has to work this wizardry alone are\u00c2\u00a0because<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0of It??? THAT MESSES ME UP SO BAD TO CONSIDER, especially when Nita starts rejecting any bit of sense that Kit makes. This line should have been the sign I needed to know that Nita had already made up her mind, at least subconsciously:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kit, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got to believe me. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like that. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really understand what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Except he\u00c2\u00a0does<\/i>, at least in the Big Picture sense. The fact that his mother is not dying is important because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not biased in that regard. Instead of valuing that perspective, however, she rejects him. And look, there are certainly aspects of this that Kit\u00c2\u00a0doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0understand at all! Yet instead of trying to explain that part to him, she just gives up. I should have known; SHE HAD ALREADY MADE UP HER MIND. Maybe she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t consciously realize it until later, but I think it had happened within her before this part:<\/p>\n
But the moment decided her. Kit or no Kit, Lone one or not, she would do anything she had to do to save her mother: give up her wizardry, agree to whatever had to be agreed to. She was lost.<\/p>\n
But at least I know now,\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>she thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
THIS BOOK GOT MORE MESSED UP. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU.<\/p>\n
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