In the first half of the tenth chapter of Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiday<\/i>, everything is revealed, and IT IS A LOT. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>. <\/p>\n
WHAT THE FUCK, HOW IS ALL OF THIS HAPPENING IN ONE SINGLE CHAPTER. I HAVEN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T EVEN READ THE SECOND HALF YET!!!<\/p>\n
The Truth<\/b><\/p>\n
Look, Dairine and Roshaun had been building to a confrontation for a long<\/i> time. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not quite satisfied yet, but I also know I still have a lot more to read. At the very least, what we learn of Roshaun and his people in this chapter goes a long<\/i> way towards explaining why he is the way he is. The events at the end of the last chapter made it clear that wizardry revolving around starts was Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speciality. How else would he have known that Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sun was about to go critical? Thus, the Powers must have known that he needed to be on Earth specifically during that time in order to help save it. (Thereby stopping a massive bit of entropy in the process.)<\/p>\n
However, Roshaun has not exactly made it easy for Dairine to come to this realization. Indeed, her fear, frustration, and ignorance all combine into a whirlwind of anger, and she and Roshaun LET LOOSE. Again, not surprising, but also not helpful. <\/i>Filif ends up being the voice of reason, and I loved<\/i> this moment:<\/p>\n She watched this with both confusion and satisfaction, but at the bottom of it was a kind of scared awe. She had been fooled by Filif\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diffident manner, and had been treating him as a bush in a baseball cap, someone faintly funny. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had no idea there was such raw power underneath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This chapter is (so far) about shifting perceptions. Because as Dairine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s idea of Filif changes in a matter of seconds, her perception of Roshaun makes a monumental<\/i> change, too. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to note that this is partially because Dairine didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t prepare as she should have:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How would you like it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said at last, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153if your star flared up just enough to roast one side of your world? That happened to our planet once. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have thought you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d noticed. Or maybe you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read the orientation package. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right there on the first page of the historical material\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p>\n YEAH. OOPS. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on you, Dairine. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the rest of what Roshaun reveals was in there, but that context is crucial in understanding him. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad enough to know that his world once suffered because of a star\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flare, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll skip the gory, horrifying details here. The important part is that practically all the wizards on Wellakh died to save the world, and then spent years and years and years fixing their world. Oh, and those wizards and non-wizards were from Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/i> family. Meaning that all of Wellakh relies on Roshaun and his family to protect their world, even if that means that they must all die to save Wellakh. This one bit, though, hit me the hardest.<\/p>\n And she found herself thinking of the view from the balcony of Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s palace, right across the very flat, strangely featureless landscape\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 right in the middle of the sealess, mountainless, melted-down side of the world. Who built that there to make sure that the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sun Kings\u00e2\u20ac\u009d never forgot what they were there for? <\/i>Dairine thought. As if to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give them everything they want<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but when the bad day comes again, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d better deliver!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which explains Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to Dairine teasing him about Mt. Everest. Oh my god, OF COURSE HE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122D BE UPSET ABOUT THAT. Now, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think this explains everything<\/i>, and this massive tragedy doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exonerate his perpetual assholeness, but this helps me understand him a lot, lot more. So, is this<\/i> the thing Tom was talking to Harry about? Is that why all the Senior Wizards in the area are gone? WHO KNOWS.<\/p>\n The Pact<\/b><\/p>\n Look, we knew something was wrong, we knew something was missing, we knew Diane Duane would do something like this to us, and it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter<\/i>.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRelegate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Naos\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n Quelt looked at him in some surprise. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Uh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where the Lone Power lives,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n Kit stared. \u00e2\u20ac\u009dIt lives here??\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n WHAT THE UNHOLY FUCK. WHAT<\/i>??? DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T YOU THINK THAT DETAIL WAS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD HAVE REVEALED EARLIER? JUST MAYBE<\/i>? Except that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of the point. This is so normal for Quelt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s world that it never seemed worthy for her to make note of it. How did things end up this way? How did the Lone One finagle a permanent<\/i> presence on Alaalu?<\/p>\n Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dreams make even more sense, and now we can surmise that the Lone One was speaking to her through them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been waiting a long time for her to arrive, hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it? Of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a more general meaning there:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simply leave me a foothold in your world\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 a place where my essence can lie dormant until the day comes when you do<\/i> need it for the Change that is to come.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Lone One has been waiting for Druvah, too. This has got<\/i> to be the thing that haunted Quelt in the last chapter, right??? She never knew what Druvah promised during the Choice, or that Druvah has existed in many forms since<\/i> then. But what can they do? I see no solution to this problem since Druvah already made the deal. How would they even find<\/i> Druvah at this point??? I HAVE NO CLUE. They may have made a mistake, but can you undo<\/i> a Choice??? Is that even a thing???<\/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 http:\/\/youtu.be\/VorQ1A-tR9o?a<\/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 first half of the tenth chapter of Wizard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Holiday, everything is revealed, and IT IS A LOT. Intrigued? 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\n– I have updated my list of conventions and events for the remainder of the year and much of next year. Check the full list of events on my Tour Dates \/ Appearances page.<\/a>
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