Question 9 - Why Did Rex Visit?

Question 9 - Why Did Rex Visit?
Talkar needed a lot of things to happen in his life for him to be able to accept the rest of it.

One of the things he needed to have happen was accept that others were also different, that he was not alone.

When he was nearly drowned by the other children in the fountain, at that moment, he was being forced out. Then he met three people.

Marcus saved him and punished the Carer, but formed no real bond, gave no expectation of any future connection. Marcus saved Talkar because he was a child, because it was the right thing to do by Shaytonian law, and perhaps because Melinski had cared for them both. He was not unkind, but he wasn't overly caring either. He was just there. Marcus Survived in Shaytonian society by being strong, protecting the important things (children) and then keeping himself to himself. Shaytonian society had no place for Marcus as he wished to be, so he made his own place - living in the Wilderness and creating his own family there.

Next came Leila. she was also alone and lonely. She felt the great weight of her responsibility, and went she tried to lift that wieght, to play like a 'normal' child, someone got hurt. The fact that it was Talkar that was hurt, drove the point home that he would need to be careful to shoulder his burdens, or people he cared about might be hurt too.

Finally Rex. Rex came out of nowhere, a little terrifying, and a lot different, but able to show him new things, take him places he had never been, see things he had never seen. Rex stood for the wild, free, magic side of Talkar - his connection to the old powers.

Rex embodied three main lessons:

1. that Talkar was strong enough to Survive
2. that he should never forget where he came from, who he was
3. that he should never forget what the others felt like.

It is a strange thing, but by definition, if you are different, so are they. it takes an effort to understand the differences.