In the second half of the twelfth chapter of Games Wizards Play<\/i>, there are no coincidences. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Young Wizards<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
NOPE, SOMETHING IS GOING ON HERE. Even weirder? Both<\/i> of the scenes in the second half of this chapter directly or indirectly deal with Roshaun. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN?<\/p>\n
Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start with the aschetic space. Dairine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s curiosity leads her to entering it so she can examine Penn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spell. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great moment because we know that Dairine has a speciality in the same kind of wizardry that Penn works with. I wanted to know her take on his wizardry!<\/p>\n
What I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> expect, though, was that her curiosity would lead her towards an odd coincidence. And as this book has told us many times, there are no coincidences<\/i>. Dairine realizes that the giant spaces that Penn left in his wizardry look super familiar, and lo and behold! Wizards on Wellakh have often left spaces in their wizardries, too. What for? WHO KNOW. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no information within the spells or the Speech that gives Dairine or the audience a clue as to why<\/i> spaces were left in these spells.<\/p>\n
But I had a different question: Where did Penn learn this?<\/i> Because I only see two options here: He specifically picked up this technique somewhere OR there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some weird, fucked up reason why this accidentally<\/i> came to him. Is it intrinsic to wizards working with stars? Maybe??? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW.<\/p>\n
And I absolutely do not know what Nita\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dream involving the Lone Power inside<\/i> of Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s body really means either. Look, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revolutionary to state that the Lone Power is the least trustworthy character in this whole series. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what It does: deceive people. Lie to them. Manipulate them. So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easiest for me to assume the worst: the Lone Power appeared in Roshaun\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s likeness in order to torment Nita because Roshaun is missing. Then, It tries its very best to lead Nita further from the truth. But surely everything<\/i> has some other meaning, right? So why does Nita first appear in a food court? Why Mars? This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the first dream Nita has had that involved Mars, and I DEFINITELY REMEMBER THAT.<\/p>\n
There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bigger issue here, of course. I just cannot<\/i> believe that in any genuine capacity, the Lone Power wants to help<\/i> Nita, unless by \u00e2\u20ac\u0153help,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d it actually means, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153trick you into doing something that ultimately benefits myself.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Lone Power\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s warning is so ambiguous as to be meaningless, at least initially. Wizards and non-wizards might be working against one another\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interests? Okay, but how does that actually<\/i> help? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM THAT EVEN NEEDS RESOLVING? Is this in regards to Roshaun or the Invitationals or both? Or none? I have no clue!!!<\/p>\n
In short: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust the Lone Power at all.<\/p>\n
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