Reading Log Week 3

Book: Queste
Author: Angie Sage
Pages Read: 50 - 92
Merrin Meredith, or "the boy", is planning something mischevious and Darke. You can tell when, "'I want that scribe's job.' the boy replied. Beetle was shocked. "The scribe's job?' he asked. 'Yeah,' said the boy. He grinned, pleased at the effect he had had. 'Like I said, the scribe's job.' 'But-do you have any qualifications?' Beetle stammered. In reply, the boy leaned forward and clicked his finger and thumb in Beetle's face. A flicker of black flame appeared from the tip of his thumb. 'That's my qualification,' the boy said. Beetle sat down in his chair with a bump. He'd heard about Darke tricks, although he'd never actually seen one before." (Pg 82) This displays that Merrin is being very mysterious and withholding information from everyone but himself. I think that this is because he is planning something carefully orchestrated to "Darken the Destiny of AnOther", which would be Septimus, of course, seeing as Merrin has quite the ill feelings toward him and wants him dead because Merrin used to be called Septimus before they discovered the truth about who was really who.

 Book: Queste
Author: Angie Sage
Pages Read: 92 - 126

Book: Queste
Author: Angie Sage
Pages Read: 126 - 170
Marcellus is a strange man with very little knowledge about the world around him and an old, old man's mind. This is stated here, "He was wearing what Beetle knew - from old engravings - were the black and gold robes of an Alchemist.....A feeling of unreality stole over Beetle. Marcellus Pye was five hundred years old. He was the Last Alchemist." (Pg 166-167) As you can see, Marcellus Pye was very odd in this new time and should not exist. I believe that he left his old Time in order to get the Eternal Youth Potion from Septimus, and he would essentially live forever.

Book: Queste
Author: Angie Sage
Pages Read: 170 - 210