In the fourth part of the ninth chapter of The Book of Night With Moon<\/i>, why have you done this to me. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read Feline Wizards<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For discussion of death and grief<\/b><\/p>\n
Well, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect something to upstage DINOSAURS DEVOURING ONE OF THE THREE TENORS, but here we are. What the hell<\/i> do I do now?<\/p>\n
So much that Duane set up was meant entirely for this chapter, and the whole thing is seriously intense. I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been split up in parts, but I feel like my heart is thankful for that? Could you imagine if I had experienced all of this in ONE SITTING?? All those exploding saurians and Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powers and\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll talk about The Thing at the end of this.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n So, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start with the unleashing of the saurians, in which Duane pulls no punches. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how she does this, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Pratchett-esque? Because I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny how silly and hilarious it is that Pavarotti is eaten by a dinosaur and the saurian sequence is also fucking horrifying<\/i>. How do those two things exist side-by-side? Well, by having a great skill in the craft department. Duane had set up the Three Tenors earlier and even if you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who they were\u00e2\u20ac\u201dseriously, though, they were so ubiquitous in the 90s\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou understood that Urruah adored them and Rhiow found them silly. I would guess that Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s feelings are a lot closer to Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s than Urruah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, and thus, the surreal nature of the scene adds humor to what is otherwise a non-stop horror show.<\/p>\n But let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you have no idea who these people are supposed to be. Then the scene still works because Pavarotti provides such a credible reaction to something so utterly terrifying. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no hesitation on Duane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part to describe the chaos. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all know that I love it when action sequences are written with clarity and<\/i> poetry, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in awe at how Duane manages to capture so much. We get a realistic depiction of how people would react in a situation like this. Which is an absurd sentence, I know! How can this be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153realistic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when nothing like this has ever happened before?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a feeling. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a sense here in the text that panic spread slowly, then rapidly, and then it reigned supreme. As the saurians\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe many types, I should note\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmake their way through the crowd, some pick of humans as they go. Others head for the brightest point in the Meadow. Regardless of what happens, Duane makes it clear that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just too much happening all at the same time. Yet the bewilderment I felt didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean I was also<\/i> confused; no, the narration is crystal clear from Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s point of view. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s occupied with trying to fight off saurians, so her view is limited, but the brilliance here is that Duane still gives us enough details from Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective so we get a fuller portrait of what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unfolding.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That also means that sometimes, Rhiow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s focus isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on the whole, but on something very<\/i> specific. In the middle of this fight, for example, we learn that Arhu really did<\/i> kill the saurian he saw at the opening of the novel. And there are more of them, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the same<\/i> saurian as the first one, and I AM NOT SURE HOW THIS IS POSSIBLE. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not clones, but all the exact<\/i> same dinosaur? WHAT IS THE LONE ONE DOING???\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know yet. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know, of course, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna file that away because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just so much else to deal with. Four wizards died, and the time patch CANNOT SAVE THEM. Like, I get that wizards are aware of the risk they take in practicing the Art, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make this any less sad. The Meadow is littered with hundreds\u00e2\u20ac\u201dperhaps thousands!!!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dof dead bodies, both saurian and human. (Maybe even feline? We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what species the four dead wizards are.) And all of this is just the first<\/i> attack. Carl is still stuck in the Downside as a hostage of the Lone One, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no gate available to get to him, since all four of them were ripped from their loci. Given that Arhu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gate was a trap, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m certain that the Lone One is rigging another<\/i> trap. Why else would the Lone One keep Carl alive? Leverage<\/i>. It forces the wizards to come to the Downside, and lord, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna be even worse the second time around, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be terrible for another reason. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how Rhiow is going to carry on the following day after the twist at the end of this chapter. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious to see if all those moments where Sue mentioned feeling stressed and overworked were bits of foreshadowing. However, I could also read them as red herrings because Sue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, senseless. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no point to it. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no growth from it. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 dead. And look, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still in shock, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been an hour or so since I first read it. 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