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Grounder/Welder
Maji who have the power to heal or cure injury and illness, respectively. Both, however, serve the same god and are part of the same clan.
Healer/Cancer Quotes in Children of Virtue and Vengeance
The Children of Virtue and Vengeance quotes below are all either spoken by Healer/Cancer or refer to Healer/Cancer. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Seventy-Six
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Even from afar, I see the blackened corpses that lie in the streets. Corpses that lie there because of me.
I picture Inan and Mother among the dead.
I picture my best friend.
Strike, Amari.
Father’s voice fills my mind as the tears fill my eyes. Though I breathe, my chest stays tight. It feels like I’m being buried alive.
“Orïsha waits for no one,” I whisper the words. “Orïsha waits for no one.”
I will the words to be true as I ride through Ibadan’s gate.
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Chapter Eighty-One
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I feel the most sacred gift of Oya beneath my hands, the holy magic of life and death. When the last body breathes again, I stare at the glowing tattoos on my hands.
No Reaper or Healer in history has ever been able to do that.
In our magic, I see the answer. What Oya wanted me to understand all along. If we use the moonstone to bind our lifeforces, we can save the maji from the monarchy’s grasp.
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Healer/Cancer Term Timeline in Children of Virtue and Vengeance
The timeline below shows where the term Healer/Cancer appears in Children of Virtue and Vengeance. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter Fifteen
...a young maji touching her and chanting in Yoruba. Two more maji yell to the Healer, Safiyah, to hurry. Zélie’s ribs knit together painfully and she remembers that Inan is still...
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Chapter Twenty
...the Burner clan. Khani and Imani are here too; Khani is the elder of the Healers.
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Chapter Twenty-Six
...says he doesn’t know why the Iyika attacked with Burners when they have Reapers and Cancers too. Inan looks at Ojore’s burns and sees how much pain he’s in, but a...
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Chapter Thirty
...her left hand. Her right arm is in a sling. Zélie points out that a Healer could help, but Amari says that five Healers refused. This is against the Healer code....
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Chapter Forty-Four
...types of magic. Mama Agba says that it’s only happened once before: the Grounder and Cancer died, but created majacite. It’s possible, but dangerous and unpredictable. From the balcony, Zélie asks...
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Chapter Fifty-Five
...Zélie into the infirmary. Zélie holds tight to Mâzeli’s hand as Khani and the other Healers circle. Zélie and Mâzeli’s heartbeats slow; they need a blood sacrifice to maintain the connection....
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Chapter Fifty-Six
Amari rushes up the stairs of the sanctuary, horrified. Healers work on injured maji on the grass. When Amari asks a Healer for Zélie, the...
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Chapter Seventy-Five
...a dome of wind descends over the valley of Ibadan. A second horn sends a Cancer’s rusty clouds into the rotating wind of the dome. Birds die instantly as the wall...
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Chapter Seventy-Six
...was feeling then but now, she feels like she knows. Tzain thrashês wildly as the Cancer gas dissipates. Amari ignores the hollowness in her chest and thinks she won the war....
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Chapter Seventy-Seven
...Zélie for saving them. Zélie asks for Roën. The woman points Zélie to a dwelling. Healers surround him. Zélie tries to toss off the woman, but the woman says that Zélie...
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Chapter Eighty-Seven
...toward Lagos, destroying majacite mines as it goes. Jahi and Amari transform the majacite into Cancer clouds and send it rushing back at the soldiers. Kâmarū, Jahi, and Kenyon deflect cannonballs...
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