Why did Azaz and the Mathemagician banish Rhyme and Reason?

• A. Because they fought Milo
• B. Because Milo asked for help
• C. Because they said letters and numbers were equally important
• D. Because they stole something

Answer: (C)

Rhyme and Reason are banished because two rulers, one ruling over words and the other over numbers, clash over which kind of knowledge matters more. Azaz the Unabridged and the Mathemagician each value their own domain, and when they declare that letters and numbers are equally important, they reveal a stalemate they don’t want to symbolically tolerate. To highlight that disagreement, they exile the personifications of those ideas, Rhyme and Reason. That’s why the idea that “letters and numbers are equally important” best explains the banishment.

It isn’t about Milo fighting them, or Milo asking for help, or any stealing. Those don’t fit the moment or the cause of the banishment.