Children of Blood and Bone Chapter Twenty-Five Summary & Analysis

Zélie, Amari, and Tzain sneak into the backstage area of the arena. Zélie imagines bringing back a group of Grounders to exact revenge on the whole city. She can sense that the sunstone is nearby.

Using their powers, divîners are potentially able to exert outsize power and destruction, killing large numbers of people in an instant. It is tempting to think about using this power of violence to enact revenge on those who have oppressed and abused the divîners for so long.

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With much effort, the three break open the lock on the door to the sunstone. But just as they do, a young divîner boy dashes by, followed by a group of guards. When they see the door open, they start to beat him violently. Tzain tries to hold Zélie back, but she bursts out of their hiding place to stop the beating.

As she often does, Zélie chooses to put herself and her friends at risk in order to fight injustice, despite warnings from her family members.

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The guards deliver a final, killing blow to the boy, but oddly, Zélie can’t feel his spirit. Forcing her gaze back on the guards and the announcer, she says that they want to compete in tomorrow night’s games.

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Outside town, Amari and Tzain argue that Zélie’s plan will never work. But she has a secret weapon—she says she can learn an incantation to reanimate the dead as soldiers, a spell her mother performed many times.

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Zélie practices the spell unsuccessfully for many hours. She feels abandoned by the gods, as well as the clan scholars who could have helped her before the Raid.

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Zélie focuses on the girl she offered water to. As the girl died, Zélie was able to see some of her memories. By focusing on them now, Zélie conjures the form of the girl in sand.

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Children of Blood and Bone: Chapter Twenty-Five Summary & Analysis