In the second half of the eighth chapter of\u00c2\u00a0Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiday<\/i>, Kit and Nita learn of the Alaalids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Choice. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh no, something is\u00c2\u00a0wrong<\/i>, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? This long scene didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make me feel better; if anything, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m now more unnerved than I was before. Which is ridiculous, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? I learned that the Choice Quelt spoke of was a\u00c2\u00a0rejection<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0of the Lone One! How is that a\u00c2\u00a0bad<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0thing?<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, this Choice only seems simple on the surface. To Quelt and her people, Druven, the man who appeared in Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream, is part of a myth. He is the only Alaalid in this history who\u00c2\u00a0didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0outright reject what the Lone One offered. Now, Duane keeps the text self-aware in a sense; what the Lone One offers the Alaalid wizards isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly groundbreaking. Hell, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen the Lone One name a ridiculous price to numerous wizards prior to this. It tries to make the price seem fair at the time, but we all know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not. To their credit, the Alaalids outright reject what the Lone Offers them: an exemption to death and entropy, as long as they serve the Lone One as their master. I mean\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 can I just point out something?<\/p>\n The Lone Power had had eons of practice at making Its case, and was extremely good at befuddling the innocent and putting one over on the clever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absolutely true, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen how skilled It is. Seriously, the Lone One almost got Nita! However, I had to laugh at the Lone One\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s confidence during a scene where It\u00c2\u00a0literally<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0tried to get people to agree to having a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153master.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 is that really your\u00c2\u00a0best<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0technique? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so easy to see that as a bad choice! Of course, maybe the other Alaalid wizards weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Its target. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get Druvah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place within all of this. Apparently, he disappeared right after the Choice, angered that his fellow wizards did not listen to Ictanik\u00c3\u00ab\/Lone One and give them a fair chance. So he\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 wandered? A lot? Refused to ever be around anyone else?\u00c2\u00a0Is<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0he dead, or was the glimpse of him in Dairine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream a sign of something else?<\/p>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what makes me so uneasy. Druvah could very well still be out there. And what if\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>he\u00c2\u00a0did<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0make a deal with the Lone One???<\/p>\n I am thrilled to confirm that I will be a Guest at CrossingsCon 2017! Badges are now available, so COME HANG OUT WITH ME THIS SUMMER<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=__PXKdcv84U<\/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 second half of the eighth chapter of\u00c2\u00a0Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiday, Kit and Nita learn of the Alaalids\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Choice. 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":[525,510],"tags":[513,511],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wizards-holiday","category-young-wizards","tag-diane-duane","tag-mark-reads-young-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","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=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"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>
\n– My Master Schedule<\/a> is updated for the near and distant future for most projects, so please check it often.\u00c2\u00a0My next Double Features for Mark Watches have been announced here.<\/a>
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