The Red Pyramid Chapter 41 Summary

We Stop the Recording, for Now

• Carter gets the last word, though he's glad Sadie narrated the previous part, since he thinks she understands the metaphysical stuff better. Plus, he was pretty emotional when not-Zia died.
• Eventually, Carter and Zia make it back to Brooklyn, but by then the news about a strange disaster at the National Mall is out. The media decided to blame it on rare storm activities.
• The mansion at Brooklyn is still a wreck, but at least Khufu is there to greet them.
• Sadie and Carter both try to sound upbeat about being back, and they take turns cleaning up the house and playing basketball with Khufu.
• Sadie and Carter are able to use some magic to restore the house, but it takes them weeks, since without the gods helping them, magic really drains them.
• Amos still isn't in good shape. He's lost a lot of weight, he hardly gets out of his bathrobe, and he doesn't talk much. Sadie think it's because Set broke his will, and that'll take some time to heal.
• Sadie and Carter keep their amulets locked in a box in the library. The temptation to put them on is strong.
• One night, Sadie and Carter have a visitor: a tall, pale guy in black, and he looks somewhat familiar to Carter. Sadie, however, stands up and says his name immediately: "Anubis!"
• Anubis asks Sadie and Carter to come with him—someone wants to see them. Anubis opens a black door and steps through, and they follow. They emerge in the Hall of Judgment, but it looks different.
• The scales have been fixed, and the overlay, instead of being a New Orleans graveyard, is the interior of a nice house with white ceilings and an ocean view.
• Shocked, Carter and Sadie both recognize it as their family's house in Los Angeles.
• Julius, sitting on the throne, says that the Hall of Judgment responds to strong memories.
• Carter sees his father looking normal on one level—but if he looks deeper, he sees his father's image in the Duat. There, Julius has blue-black skin and is dressed in the robes of a pharaoh.
• Sadie stomps forward and demands to know what happened, what Julius is, and whether he's alive.
• Julius looks at Anubis and says that Sadie is fiercer than Ammit. Anubis says he's already learned to fear her sharp tongue.
• Julius answers her, saying that he is both Julius Kane and Osiris. He is both alive and dead.
• Carter cuts in, saying that Julius knew he'd have to die in order to restore Osiris to his throne. This makes Carter angry—all along, he and Sadie had been trying to save Julius, and all along, Julius had been trying to die.
• Julius says that they made the right choice: if Carter and Sadie had saved him in the world above, all this work would have been for nothing, since death needed to happen for them to have a chance at rebirth.
• Since the Duat is the foundation for the real world, restoring Osiris to his throne was a step toward restoring order in the rest of the world. Julius reminds Sadie and Carter that he's also still their father.
• Julius says that there's another reason he made his choice, and then Ruby steps forward.
• After some family time, Julius cuts in and says that the others are expecting them. First, he gives Carter and Sadie an amulet that looks like a column or a spine.
• It's a djed, the spine of Osiris. It's kind of morbid, but it represents stability and strength. It'll help the kids wake the blood of the pharaohs in others so that they can rebuild the House of Life.
• They say their goodbyes. Julius tells Carter to remind Amos that the Egyptians believe in the power of sunrise, and then Anubis leads them somewhere. Anubis and Sadie might be flirting a bit.
• Next, they all step into a room of gods. Carter recognizes a bunch of them, but he doesn't see Bast.
• Standing next to the throne are Horus and Isis. Once again, Horus asks Carter if he will take the throne and rule with him. It's a powerful offer.
• Carter says maybe someday. Horus says that he still doesn't understand mortals.
• Horus claims the throne of the gods, and everyone bows before him. When they rise, Horus and Isis say that they owe Sadie and Carter a debt for helping defeat Apophis, even if it's only temporary. The gods say that there will be a gift waiting for them in the morning and send them back to their Brooklyn House.
• When Carter and Sadie wake up the next day, they find the gods' gift: the mansion has been completely restored to its previous state. Everything is clean; nothing is broken.
• When Carter opens his closet, he finds news clothes, so he puts them on. Sadie is shocked to see him in "normal" clothes for a kid his age—jeans, a T-shirt, and a hoodie—but then she says he looks great (and it's all cotton, too, so it's okay to work magic in it).
• While they're eating breakfast, Amos comes in, and for the first time since the battle, he's dressed normally, in snazzy-looking clothes. He announces that he's thinking about going to the First Nome to seek help from their magic healers. He thinks that they won't turn him away.
• This sounds great to Sadie and Carter, especially since it's the most Amos has said in weeks.
• Amos tells Carter and Sadie to take care of the place, since he might be gone for a while.
• Amos also recommends that Sadie and Carter look for other children with the blood of pharaohs, since there are potentially a lot of them out there, and they might be in danger.
• After he goes inside, Carter and Sadie are still a little sad. The gift of the gods has been great so far… but how are they supposed to wander around as unaccompanied minors?
• They hear a voice from the doorway: it's Bast. She's come back to be their chaperone. There is happiness all around.
• A couple days later, Sadie has a long conversation with her grandparents. Carter doesn't listen in, but when he sees her face afterward, she looks serious.
• Apparently, the grandparents have been encouraging Sadie to come home to London. Expecting the worst, Carter tells her that it'll be nice for her to see her friends again. Sadie punches his arm and tells him that she's already home.
• A new mission comes up quickly: Sadie sees a school in a dream and knows that she and Carter have to go.
• Bast drives Carter and Sadie, and they have to dodge a bunch of forces of chaos on the way. It seems possible that they aren't the only ones looking for descendants of the pharaohs.
• Carter and Sadie find the school before the spring term starts, and they enchant a locker to open into the Duat. They put the djed amulet in it, knowing that only the right person will be able to find and open the locker.
• If someone with pharaoh blood finds the amulet, it should awaken their powers and guide them to Brooklyn. Not that Sadie and Carter have any idea how to train anyone, but whatever.
• Back in Brooklyn, Sadie and Carter finish their recording and decide to send it out to some carefully chosen people.
• The story's not over yet: Sadie and Carter are going to see their parents again in the Land of the Dead (a prospect that excites Sadie, since Anubis will be there). Carter intends to look for the real Zia.
• And, of course, chaos is rising: that's the most important thing. Carter and Sadie need to gain strength in order to make sure that the world isn't destroyed.
• That's where you come in. You'll learn to walk the path of the gods. Come to Brooklyn. Sadie and Carter are waiting for you.