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An umber boy whom Lev meets after being separated from Connor and Risa. CyFi likes to hear himself talk and speaks in Old World Umber Patois as a way to honor his ancestors. Though he annoys Lev at first by constantly defining everything and invoking God, Lev recognizes that he needs CyFi, as CyFi is skilled at surviving and finding food. CyFi is on a mysterious solo journey to Joplin, Missouri. As he and Lev travel, CyFi shares more about himself and why he’s making this journey: he received an entire temporal lobe from an Unwind thanks to his dads’ ability to pay off a surgeon, but now, CyFi experiences thoughts and feelings that belong to the Unwind—and for some reason, the Unwind needs to go to Joplin, Missouri. CyFi hopes that after making the journey, the boy in his head will leave him alone. CyFi is a self-professed upstanding citizen, but he must question this because the Unwind in his head was a compulsive thief, and now CyFi has fits and steals too. In Joplin, CyFi discovers that the temporal lobe came from a boy named Tyler, gives in to Tyler’s thoughts, and begs Tyler’s parents not to unwind him. This seems to calm Tyler, and CyFi is able to go home with his dads. Lev later learns that this experience caused CyFi to speak out against unwinding, and that CyFi has since testified in Congress against the practice.
Cyrus Finch/CyFi Quotes in Unwind
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Chapter 21
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Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two filled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn’t exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.
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“He’s not a bad kid. He’s just hurting. Hurting real bad.” The way Cy’s talking, it’s like the kid is still there, right in the room with them. “He’s got this urge about him to grab things—like an addiction, y’know? Shiny things mostly. It’s not like he really wants them, it’s just that he kind of needs to snap ‘em up. I figure he’s a kleptomaniac.”
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Chapter 30
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And all at once Cy realizes that Tyler doesn’t know. The part of that boy which comprehends time and place isn’t here, and never will be. Tyler can’t understand that he’s already gone, and nothing Cy can do will ever make him understand. So he goes on wailing.
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Chapter 35
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He could join them just out of spite, but that’s not enough—not this time. There must be more. Yet, as he stands there, Lev realizes that there is more. It’s invisible, but it’s there, like the deadly charge lurking in a downed power line. Anger, but not just anger: a will to act on it as well.
“All right, I’m in.” Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn’t realized how much he missed that feeling.
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Cyrus Finch/CyFi Quotes in Unwind
The Unwind quotes below are all either spoken by Cyrus Finch/CyFi or refer to Cyrus Finch/CyFi. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 21
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Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two filled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn’t exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.
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“He’s not a bad kid. He’s just hurting. Hurting real bad.” The way Cy’s talking, it’s like the kid is still there, right in the room with them. “He’s got this urge about him to grab things—like an addiction, y’know? Shiny things mostly. It’s not like he really wants them, it’s just that he kind of needs to snap ‘em up. I figure he’s a kleptomaniac.”
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Chapter 30
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And all at once Cy realizes that Tyler doesn’t know. The part of that boy which comprehends time and place isn’t here, and never will be. Tyler can’t understand that he’s already gone, and nothing Cy can do will ever make him understand. So he goes on wailing.
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Chapter 35
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He could join them just out of spite, but that’s not enough—not this time. There must be more. Yet, as he stands there, Lev realizes that there is more. It’s invisible, but it’s there, like the deadly charge lurking in a downed power line. Anger, but not just anger: a will to act on it as well.
“All right, I’m in.” Back at home Lev always felt part of something larger than himself. Until now, he hadn’t realized how much he missed that feeling.
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