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A question came in at my Tumblr ask box:<\/p>\n

My roommate just finished Young Wizards, so now she’s in musing mode. So, the latest wondering is how would the wizards react to zombies. If you go by the virus mode of zombie, changing them would violate the Oath, and using wizardry to kill them is just feeding the Lone One. (unless directly threatened, we suppose)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow, that’s a fabulous question. And not something I’ve thought about much.<\/p>\n

Let’s go ask Tom.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s such a nice house, especially in the good weather. The patio doors are open: I wander in through the living room, then into the kitchen. And of course there he is, staring into the fridge with the look of a man contemplating a potential sandwich.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you always in the kitchen when I show up here?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you rather I was in the bedroom?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no, let\u2019s not go there. Literally or figuratively.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJust as well. Carl would give me one of those plaintive looks and say \u2018Are you trying to confuse me again?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Snickering. \u201cGod forbid. Where is<\/i> himself, by the way?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturn at the moment. There\u2019s some kind of issue, he had to go confer with the Planetary: something secondary to the War. Nothing serious, though, I\u2019m told. What\u2019s your pleasure? Tea? Coffee? Something stronger?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the Sun over the yardarm here?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s your yardarm. You tell me. Got a nice Sp\u00e4tburgunder weissherbst<\/i> in here somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh God. Please <\/i>and thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He goes back to rooting in the fridge. \u201cSo what brings you out all this way?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGot a question for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what else is new.\u201d He comes back with two glasses. \u201cHere.\u201d He pours them each a third full, hands me one. It\u2019s that perfect eye-of-the-pheasant color, caught between ros\u00e9 and gold: if it were a US wine it would be thought of as similar to a white Zinfandel, the skins removed early from the must of a big-bodied grape to keep it from going all the way to red.<\/p>\n

We touch glasses. \u201cNe\u2019gakh emeirsith,\u201d<\/i> Tom says, which is one of many local variants in the Speech for the sentiment \u201cYour health\u201d. Probably it would render closer to the Swiss-German usage \u201cEn guete\u201d, <\/i>\u201cmay it do you good\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBack at you,” I say, \u201cthank you,\u201d and have a sip. It tastes like summer in a glass, and way down among the tangled flavors of peach leather and vanilla and faint sunwarmed brass there is just a hint of something extra going on. \u201cOf course<\/i> there are wizards who\u2019re vintners,\u201d I mutter. \u201cSilly me. Kaiserstuhl?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomewhere on the Rhine, anyway. Anyway: what can I do you for?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cZombies.\u201d<\/p>\n

He rolls his eyes quite hard. \u201cOh dear God, do not<\/i> tell me you\u2019re planning on inflicting that<\/i> on us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy no means. Consider it a hypothetical.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly too pleased.\u201d He tilts his head at me with an expression way too similar to the one John Watson saves to use on Sherlock when his colleague is about to suggest that they do something improbable and most likely illegal (or likely shortly to be declared so) \u201cfor science.\u201d \u201cBecause we\u2019ve got enough on our plates right now, as you know. But what is<\/i> it with everybody suddenly seemingly feeling life isn\u2019t worth living unless there\u2019s an impending zombie apocalypse?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA question I\u2019ve been asking myself increasingly often of late.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSome cultural thing,\u201d Tom says, looking down into his wine and swirling it a little to assess the hang, or because he sees something there I don\u2019t. \u201cAn expression of people\u2019s increasing sense of helplessness against an increasingly unmanageable and incomprehensible world: that was one explanation I heard recently.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike the millennialist<\/a> stuff that keeps coming up more and more of late.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that\u2019s always been around,\u201d Tom says. \u201cBut the two phenomena express different sets of reactions to the same problem, maybe. The millennialism business might appeal most to people who just want to escape, but not be seen as cowards. None of it\u2019s their<\/i> fault: it was the bad people who made the world end! And in a side branch of the trope, not their<\/i> fault at all that God was going to yank them off the planet and leave the bad people to cope with all the floods and earthquakes and whatnot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBerne does<\/i> say that the basic existential position of all human beings is \u2018I am blameless,\u2019\u201d I murmur. The wine really does hang nicely. \u201cBut the zombie thing, well, if that\u2019s the far side of the same psychological phenomenon, maybe it\u2019s the \u2018We can too make a difference, damned if we\u2019re going down without a fight\u2019 side. Not wholly incompatible with the wizardly ground-of-being.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the added benefit of being able to machine-gun the neighbors without guilt,\u201d Tom remarks, \u201conce they\u2019ve turned.\u201d He gives me a very dry look. \u201cSeriously, you\u2019re not contemplating this, are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot in the slightest. I got any urges in that direction out of my system writing Lost Future<\/i>,<\/a> believe me. Never said the Z word, but it was in the background all the time. While I wasn\u2019t contemplating the delights of making Sean Bean run around the landscape dressed in nothing but leather. Anyway, you mean you can\u2019t tell, after how I dealt with the vampire thing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that did rather come down by fiat,\u201d Tom says. \u201cCaught me by surprise at first: thought maybe I\u2019d missed a memo. But ‘no vampires after 1652?’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an interesting year. A story that\u2019ll get told eventually, I\u2019m sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA reaction to something else, perhaps?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure I can\u2019t say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom grins at me. \u201cI note the phrasing. Well, never mind.\u201d He shrugs. \u201cIf we\u2019re being spared zombies it doubtless means I won\u2019t ever get to machine-gun the neighbors for mowing their lawn and running their leaf blower at six in the morning, but we all have to suffer a little in this life, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

I snort into the wine. \u201cUm, okay. Sorry.” Because the image of ActionHero!Tom spraying zombies with a machine gun somehow has its points. “Where were we?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cZombies,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re asking me how we would react? From the wizardly point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t mind hearing your thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell.\u201d He leans back in the chair. \u201cWhat sort of propagation are we talking? Not the vodoun<\/i>-style one-zombie-at-a-time, old-fashioned craftsmanship type, I assume.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, the viral model.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCovers a lot of ground. How<\/i> viral? Direct transmission? Do they have to run up and chew on you as in Shaun of the Dead<\/i>? Or passive transmission via body fluids, so you can catch it from a doorknob? Or airborne?\u201d<\/p>\n

I shudder a bit. \u201cLet\u2019s not and say we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree. The main questions for a wizard attacking the problem are: how widespread is this thing going to become, and how quickly? Because the Oath does not<\/i> require us to allow our species to be massacred because we want to avoid killing the poor zombie viruses.\u201d He gives me a dry half-smile. \u201cSmallpox, for example\u2014we helped with that. It\u2019s killed more human beings on this planet than every war there\u2019s ever been, all rolled together, and now it\u2019s almost gone\u2014assuming some idiot doesn\u2019t go rogue and try to weaponize something from the two remaining cultures in Moscow or at the CDC, or some natural cache presently unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

He sighed. \u201cSometimes you have to make a judgment call. Let’s assume we tried to talk the viruses out of it: we failed. When that happens, we get to defend ourselves. Will some of us wind up in Timeheart having to take responsibility for action against a certain kind of life, and have to explain our actions to those affected by them? Almost certainly. But that doesn\u2019t mean those actions were the wrong<\/i> ones to take. Especially since it\u2019s nowhere written that wizardry or the Oath forbid us to kill, particularly in self-defense. We\u2019re just required to be utterly judicious about it, because in death as in life, what goes around comes around. Sometimes in unexpected forms. And increasing entropy is to be avoided whenever humanly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell,\u201d I say, leaning back after another sip of the Sp\u00e4tburgunder,<\/em> \u201cI think change might have been the issue. You\u2019ve got a human. They\u2019ve been turned into a zombie\u2014”<\/p>\n

\u201cIf killing the virus will allow them to recover, you do so, and change them back,\u201d Tom says immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo that doesn\u2019t violate Clause Three.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Troptic Stipulation? <\/a>No. The clause is meant to deal with initiating<\/i> change. Let\u2019s say I get annoyed at something you say and am about to turn you into a frog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs one does,\u201d I say to the wine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat<\/i> the Oath enjoins against,\u201d Tom says. \u201cInflicting batrachotropsy <\/a>on you like that would be changing your normal mode of operation just because I felt like it, to satisfy some agenda of my own. It wouldn\u2019t be because you<\/i> needed it to happen. The Stipulation serves as a specific, simple example or reminder of the more general enjoinder against inflicting your power on others for your own purposes\u2026 and also a reminder that as a wizard you are required to think your changes through and determine how they\u2019ll affect the whole system involved. Anyway, let\u2019s step back to the original problem. Reversing a zombie change: fine, you go for it\u2014assuming you\u2019re fairly sure the host will revert to their previous state \u2013 because the change you\u2019re making is a reversal to a previously disrupted status quo inflicted on one of the principals without consent. Particularly, sanction obtains because you\u2019re reversing a change that was threatening, indeed rendering impossible, the host\u2019s normal way of being.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s the virus\u2019s<\/i> normal way of being.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTough,\u201d Tom says.<\/p>\n

I blink a bit at that: such no-wiggle-room language is unusual from a Senior. \u201cYet you\u2019re not suggesting this is anything hierarchical: no suggestion that humans are more important than viruses.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot at all. Least of all, for the moment, because from the macro point of view, such assessments are alternately impossible for us to understand\u2014since we do not stand, psychologically, philosophically or spiritually, at sufficiently central a point to see widely enough\u2014and unfruitful. Here\u2019s how it would look to me. First, who initiated the attack? The virus. From the wizardly point of view, whether all parties are sentients of equivalent complexity or not, \u2018who started it\u2019 is<\/i> an issue, and my attention will always be on which is most benefited by the action and which is most harmed. Naturally the virus stands to benefit: all viruses that affect humans use us to reproduce. Is mere reproduction enough of an excuse to kill a member of another species? Not from where I\u2019m standing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you\u2019re one of the two species in question.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, which means of course I have a dog in this fight, but no, it doesn\u2019t mean I have to try to be so even-handed about all this that I wind up dropping dead before figuring out what action to take. Or then getting up again to go staggering around and nomming on other passing people. The goal is to have as few life-forms die as possible while solving the main problem. The viruses are going to get into their hosts, reproduce, and kill them, and then die themselves. Importance<\/i> as such doesn\u2019t enter into this, but a human being is potentially going to do a lot more things in its lifetime, and of a much higher level of complexity, than a virus will: and in that lifetime, some of those things will slow down entropy locally. Which is where our main loyalty lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom sighs and has another drink of wine. \u201cAlso,\u201d he says, \u201cthink it forward to the theoretical end state. Without wizardly interference, pretty soon all susceptible mammalian life on Earth is dead, or wandering around zombie-nomming on each other until they all fall apart and rot. And somewhere along the line, the virus dies out too \u2013 because that\u2019s routinely what happens with organisms that kill their hosts in such a wholesale manner. What\u2019s been the benefit of all this in the long term? And consider the huge, huge waste. Especially of a species which, though annoying and problematic in oh so damn many ways, nonetheless would have had before it, over millennia, so many ways to slow down entropy locally. Whereas viruses only have one\u2026 of very limited effectiveness or value at best. And one which leaves no one alive to judge whether the price was worth paying. Which fact by itself tells you the price is too damn high.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what would the Powers say?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat,\u201d Tom says, \u201cis every wizard\u2019s business to inquire for him-, her- or themself. Themselves. Whatever\u2014”<\/p>\n

At which point his phone begins jumping and buzzing against the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh crap, excuse me,\u201d Tom says, picks it up, punches the button, puts it to his ear. \u201cTom Swale. \u2014Oh, hi. \u2014Yes, she is.\u201d His face twists itself into an expression of good-natured mischief. \u201cOne moment, I\u2019ll ask.\u201d He looks over at me. \u201cI\u2019ve got a couple of people on the other end with a message for you. That being, \u2018Are you scared of the spooning?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I come up blank for a moment and then realize what he\u2019s on about. <\/a>\u201cOh!\u201d And I start laughing. \u201cNo, it\u2019s okay, the spooning\u2019s sorted. Tell them I\u2019m just stuck on \u2018the morning routines\u2019 one. Nearly finished with that, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

He nods, puts the phone back to his ear. \u201cDid you hear that? Fine. Anything else? Good. Because I\u2019m still waiting for those notes on the volcano thing. \u2014I don\u2019t care<\/i> that you told me how you fixed it. You still have to tell everybody else<\/i> how. \u2014Well, so you should have left the contextual recorder running, then. It\u2019s not my<\/i> fault the controls are so granular. Maybe you should ask Dairine for some help.\u201d<\/p>\n

His eyes widen a little and he holds the phone a little way from his ear. I can just make out the sound of Nita saying something about \u201ca horrible death\u201d. Tom rolls his eyes and puts the phone back to his ear. \u201cRTFM, Nita. I\u2019ll just keep saying it until you start paying attention. Read<\/i> the\u2014\u201c<\/p>\n

His eyebrows go up: he puts the phone down on the table again, rolls his eyes. \u201cDid she just hang up on you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I think Kit took the phone away from her and he<\/i> hung up on me. Not quite the same dynamic.\u201d<\/p>\n

I chuckle. \u201cHow do you cope sometimes?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGood question.\u201d He has a little more wine, then puts the glass down. \u201cAnyway, I think we left a loose end untied.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. What if such a viral-based change in the zombified humans is irreversible? Even by wizardry?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen with endless regret,\u201d Tom says, \u201cyou put the zombies out of their misery with the absolute minimum of pain, to keep them from infecting others and spreading the anguish any further\u2026 that being the quickest way to limit the Lone One\u2019s local victory. Of course more elegant solutions might be preferable, but you\u2019re not always offered such opportunities. In fact, you\u2019re usually not. The decisions worth making are routinely the most difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

I nod and have a bit more wine myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes it seem tangled? So it should,\u201d Tom says. \u201cBut then the Oath\u2019s not a be-all and end-all. I would never think to demean it by describing it as a set of guidelines. But every one of the embedded strictures and stipulations has certainly been broken, and doubtless may yet be again, without the person doing that being any less of a wizard, because situation is everything.<\/i> Your purpose as a wizard is to keep things running as well as they can for the maximum good of as many beings as possible\u2026 and \u2018good\u2019 itself is so situational. You know as well as I do that on the High Road you run into wizards of species far different from ours whose recensions of the Oath make no<\/i> sense in terms of the way our minds hold Life and its exigencies. Yet they serve Life as emphatically as we do, they\u2019re our cousins, and we\u2019re all on the same side.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then he chuckles a little. \u201cWhy would this ever realistically be an easy call, anyway?\u201d Tom says. \u201cAfter all, this is how you set it up. Who wants a world where all the choices are easy ones? If these stories are meant to be of some use besides entertainment\u2014which is honorable enough by itself, granted\u2014if there\u2019s meant to be a little more meat than usual on these books’ bones, then the choices must<\/i> be difficult. Like they are in real life. Because what\u2019s the point, if you send your readership out into what we laughably refer to as the Real World with the idea that wizardry and life are black and white? Or even just gray? No matter how many shades of it you\u2019re talking.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh please, don\u2019t go<\/i> there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He just gives me another of those slightly wicked looks. \u201cWizardry is not a multiple choice test, or a menu with only a few choices,\u201d Tom says. \u201cWizardry is a set of multiple interpenetrating strata of intent, event and solution. Or if you want to stay 2-D, think of it as a set of many, many overlapping Venn diagrams. Sometimes the overlap of requirement, intervention and resolution simply cannot be made to work in a way that leaves you or the people working with you, or for that matter the microorganisms you\u2019re interacting with or acting on, entirely happy. Yet will you eventually have to account for your actions? Yes. So you have a responsibility to be prepared to do so. Do you have an understanding that your goal is to get things to work for as many of the parties to a problem as possible? If you\u2019re a wizard, yes, always. Will it sometimes not work out for one party because of a judgment call you made? Almost inevitably.” He stretches again in the chair. \u201cBut that\u2019s the reason ours differs from other wizardly systems, I\u2019m told. Because somebody or other, thirty years ago, thought it was a horrible oversimplification to \u2018just wave a wand and have stuff happen.\u2019 Somebody started thinking things through. And look where it got you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I can ever stop.\u201d I finish the wine, put the glass down.<\/p>\n

“Nope, nope, nope. Sit down and tell me about that Sooper Sekrit Thing you ran off to do in London.”<\/p>\n

Far be it from me to argue with a man who’s pouring me another glass of that<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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Author’s note:<\/em> Tom Swale, on whom was based a senior wizard in the Young Wizards series, moved on to a larger catchment area (as the cousins say) in 2018, joining his beloved Carl in the Great Wherever. Neither this world nor the YW universe will be the same without you, old friend.<\/p>\n

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