On my third read now, and it's interesting how the first two times, I didn't manage to catch just how many hints there were to Tobias becoming a nothlit, and I'm NOT just talking about the way it's essentially narrated after he's already become one. Rather, all the things about him being obsessed with flying, and him having spent time in his hawk morph before the mission even started without morphing back to human. I really do think people are right that he nothlit-ed himself intentionally.

Oh man does it definitely never get old how i. Every Single Book they reintroduce literally everything. Yes cassie with the animal rehabilitation center. Yes tobias is a bird. YES I KNOW ABOUT THERMALS.