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Hi everyone, I'm new to the group! I absolutely love the Young Wizards books (especially SYWTBAW and DW) and look forward to talking about them! 
Anyway, there's something about Deep Wizardry I never understood, and it bugs me every time I read the book. Paraphrasing as best I can (I don't have the book with me at the moment), when S'reee first gets Kit and Nita to change into whales, she gets Nita to do a simple shapechange and Kit to use a whalesark instead. She then explains to Nita that her peril lies in forgetting her true identity and becoming a whale completely. She tells Kit, in contrast, that the danger for him is that his body will reject the whalesark and revert to normal human behavior (i.e. human breathing patterns, temperature, etc.) This would be very dangerous if it happened far below the ocean. She says something along the lines of, "if you find yourself losing whalesong, you must get out of the water immediately."
THen, during the battle during the Song of the Twelve, Kit begins to speak in "pure" whalesong, not the whalesong/human mixture that he had always used in the past. Nita, remembering S'reee's warning, interprets this as a sign that Kit's body is about to reject the whalesark and revert to human form.
But wait a moment! That's Nita's warning sign, not Kit's! Nita is the one that is in danger of losing her true identity and becoming completely "whale". If Kit's body was about to reject the whalesark, he should have reverted to human language, not pure whalesong.
Anybody have an explanation?
Nerine
Anyway, there's something about Deep Wizardry I never understood, and it bugs me every time I read the book. Paraphrasing as best I can (I don't have the book with me at the moment), when S'reee first gets Kit and Nita to change into whales, she gets Nita to do a simple shapechange and Kit to use a whalesark instead. She then explains to Nita that her peril lies in forgetting her true identity and becoming a whale completely. She tells Kit, in contrast, that the danger for him is that his body will reject the whalesark and revert to normal human behavior (i.e. human breathing patterns, temperature, etc.) This would be very dangerous if it happened far below the ocean. She says something along the lines of, "if you find yourself losing whalesong, you must get out of the water immediately."
THen, during the battle during the Song of the Twelve, Kit begins to speak in "pure" whalesong, not the whalesong/human mixture that he had always used in the past. Nita, remembering S'reee's warning, interprets this as a sign that Kit's body is about to reject the whalesark and revert to human form.
But wait a moment! That's Nita's warning sign, not Kit's! Nita is the one that is in danger of losing her true identity and becoming completely "whale". If Kit's body was about to reject the whalesark, he should have reverted to human language, not pure whalesong.
Anybody have an explanation?
Nerine
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