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Tracy Deonn

Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2020

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Part 3, Chapters 26-40Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Part 3: Roots

Part 3, Chapter 26 Summary

After Patricia starts the ritual in the cemetery, Bree feels like she’s been pulled by the universe, and falls onto her hands in a cabin where a woman is in pain. Patricia explains her “branch of the root allows [her] to work memories” (228), and they are on a memory walk. In the cabin, there are three women: Abby, Mary, and Louisa. Abby has been whipped and Louisa called the healer Mary to help her. Bree learns the man who whipped Abby has a monument on the UNC campus. Unlike William’s seemingly unlimited healing power, Mary’s power is limited by what the ancestors allow her to channel through plants she brought to the cabin.

Within this memory, Bree tells Patricia she can see root and that she’s met the Order of the Round Table. Then Patricia’s ancestor, Louisa, says she can see Bree and takes her arm, pulling her (without Patricia) into another memory. This memory is also of a cabin with Black women in it but in 1815—50 years from the initial memory. Bree witnesses the birth of a “crossroads child” (235) with amber eyes. Cecilia (Louisa’s ancestor) says the baby will turn on his mom because he is half-demon.

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By Tracy Deonn