In the second part of the sixth chapter of Lifeboats<\/i>, Kit makes significant progress with a new friend. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Look, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all know you can just put a live animal in front of me and I will lose my shit, so this part of chapter six is FAR TOO MUCH FOR ONE MARK TO HANDLE. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s put aside my own obsession with animals (especially cute ones that are able to communicate with humans!!!) for the moment, though. Why? Because even if I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t totally obsessed with scenes like this one, I believe this would still have been well-written. I know I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m biased, but Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interaction with this nameless sibik reveals a whole lot about the world and<\/i> about Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s character.<\/p>\n
I was reminded of the way Kit talks to machinery and gadgets most of the time, since he treats them in a similar manner. If I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not wrong in that interpretation, I wonder if it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that Kit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speciality as a wizard is actually life<\/i>. What if he can communicate with other species well, even those that do not normally communicate as they do here? At this point, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve not seen an example of a sibik talking to a Tevaralti on the page, and the text suggests that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty rare that the converse like this one does with Kit. So, Kit must have some special connection, right?<\/p>\n
Well, not necessarily. Kit has a prolonged interaction with this sibik, and we come to find out\u00e2\u20ac\u201dafter Kit teaches the sibik how to say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153please,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d perhaps the most adorable sequence in any Young Wizards <\/i>novel\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat sibiks often depend on Teveralti for food. I think<\/i> there is a distinction between wild sibiks and those who are domesticated, and this one is definitely<\/i> a pet. Which means that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always looked to its Tevaralti companion for food! Thus, it seeks out Kit and his crackers because it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find food on its own.<\/p>\n
Now, as to how<\/i> that sibik knew Kit had crackers and<\/i> what they were called, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a much bigger mystery. They do use scent to track things, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hints here that this is only part of how symbiosis works for these creatures and their Tevaralti counterparts. The sibiks are aware of those who are sad and remaining behind on Tevaral, and that affects them, too\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 so can they provide us with a deeper understanding of these Tevaralti??? Maybe??? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still clinging to this idea! Also: I want all sibik protected forever<\/i>, I deeply love them, I would own ten of them and treat them like my children.<\/p>\n
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