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=== Chapter 25 ===
Sarene and Raoden distribute food offerings, along with other nobles. Raoden regrets that he has to keep his identity secret from his noble friends, but enjoys spending time with his wife.
After the nobles leave, Raoden and his crew gather the non-food offerings that had been given part of the agreement with Sarene, though the princess fulfilled the intent of the requests but undermined the spirit by giving items that were unwieldy or unpleasant to adapt to their intended uses.
Raoden's apprehensions about the food offerings are coming true, and many are abandoning New Elantris to loiter by the city gates.
Saolin gets severely wounded on his arm, and tells Raoden that Shaor's gang is now better armed and acting more strategically and less bestially than previously. Raoden says they must focus on keeping Shaor's followers away from Sarene and the nobles to avoid a losing battle, and that they must discover what Sarene's hidden motives are.
Raoden practices aons several hours a day, and is gaining great skill, and pushing his constant agony to the back of his mind while he practices.
Galladon raises their crops alone now, since his helpers departed New Elantris.
Galladon and Raoden discuss Raoden's increasing knowledge about Aons, and Raoden realizes from a case study that he read about alludes to a malformed Aon spell that caused symptoms similar to a post-Reod Elantrian transformation, and theorizes that this means that their transformations are in suspended animation but being blocked from being completed.
Raoden interrogates Galladon about his suspicious amount of knowledge regarding Elantris, and Galladon reveals that he actually grew up in Elantris, and that his father was an Elantrian. Galladon returned to the Duladel Republic to become a farmer when he was old enough since he felt out of place in Elantris, only returning after his own transformation.
Raoden has a flash of insight, and goes to the Hall of the Fallen, realizing intuitively that one of the Hoed was an Elantrian before the Reod. The Hoed asks to be taken out of Elantris, and Raoden along with a few others brings him to a special shrine-like building that the Hoed was able to direct them to, that has sludge-free walls, a lot of books, and a mural of an Elantrian diving into a lake. The Hoed directs Raoden, Galladon and Karata to another passage, which lead to a path out to the mountainside, and up to a pool. The Hoed is placed into the pool and dissolves, shocking Raoden and the others.
Raoden asks to be given the same treatment when he becomes Hoed.
=== Chapter 26 ===
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