Reading Wizard of the Pigeons (Spoilers)

[Albertosaurus Rex]

I have passed the halfway point. Page 151, to be precise.

Wizard is going through a rough few days. He is losing touch with his magic and loses his popcorn bag with the endless supply of popcorn, so he can no longer feed the pigeons. He is then apparently (it's a little unclear) tricked by Mir into expending the little magic he has left trying to disarm a man with murder in his heart. (Through his gift, he sees that the man carries a knife and wants to murder somebody. But after the struggle, the man gets away and Wizard reflects that he will just get another knife.)

Wizard then stumbles into a cathedral and has a flashback to his youth as an altar boy. Writers of course draw on their own experience when writing, and I wonder how much of Lindholm herself is in this scene.

Who or what Mir is is not yet revealed at this point. Beyond the fact that he is something from Wizard's past, we don't know anything. The story being at midpoint and Wizard at his most despairing, I say it's time we got some answers.