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The third book in [[Madeleine L
Reciting a rune bestowed upon him by his in-law Mrs. O'Keefe, Charles Wallace summons the winged [[Unicorn]] Gaudior, who takes him on a journey through time to seemingly random events, all connected by location and the name "Maddox". Their mission is to change several important "[[For Want of a Nail|might-have-beens]]" to avert disaster in the present. The Echthroi, evil beings introduced in ''[[A Wind in
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* [[Cain and Abel]]: Madoc and Gwydyr. Another recurring motif.
* [[Call Back]]: The first chapter alludes to the tesseract and farandolae of the respective first two books.
* [[Can't Argue
* [[Combat
* [[Cool Horse]]: Gaudior
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: At least, according to ''Planet'', that's the way things began.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: In Brandon's story, between the People of the Wind and the more liberal Welsh on the one hand, and the hardline Puritans on the other. This is partly what trips up Zylle during her interrogation by Mortmain.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Calvin, [[Put
* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Played straight with Gedder.
* [[Domestic Abuse]]: Heavily implied that Beezie's mother was a victim of it.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Discussed by Matthew and Bran, one of whom is paralyzed and the other suffers from a permanently injured leg and [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|PTSD]].
* [[Evil Smells Bad]]: The Echthroi, as noted in ''[[A Wind in
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Gwydyr
* [[Foreshadowing]]: From the way Mrs. O'Keefe talks about him, you know something bad is going to happen to Chuck.
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* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: Skinny, gawky, stringy-haired, bespectacled Meg became a beautiful young woman as she reached her twenties.
* [[Sinister Minister]]: Pastor Mortmain
* [[Spell My Name
** Zyll=Zill; Zylle=Zeel
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: On several levels: First, Charles Wallace is only going Within various people from the past, and only once is it explicit that he's even ''doing'' anything while being Within. Then, even when they finally reach 1863, {{spoiler|Charles Wallace is Within Matthew, who is having a vision of ''Richard,'' who is all the way in Vespugia, having the big fight with Gedder that the entire book has actually been building up to.}}
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* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Bran and Matthew Maddox.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]: Meg's back at the house.
** Also [[Meanwhile in
* [[Unicorn]]: Gaudior. It deserves noting that he's ''very'' different from the unicorns depicted in ''[[Many Waters]]'' in the same world -- he's bigger, he's more reliably (albeit still not completely) real, and he's telepathic. And has magic.
* [[You Fail Physics Forever]]: Even a full-scale nuclear war would not even blow up a planet. It would "merely" turn a good portion of the world (perhaps all of it) into an uninhabitable, or barely habitable, wasteland. The quote in the [[Artistic License Astronomy]] entry is especially curious, as the conversations with Sandy and Dennys, as well as the Projections, depict a more realistic result.
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