Metal things- chittim, or Leopard currency-fall around Sunny. Sunny is instantly pulled into the earth, and she emerges back in Anatov’s hut a moment later dressed in a raffia dress. He pulls out a big knife and draws a symbol in the air with it.

The next day, Saturday, Chichi and Orlu take Sunny to meet a man named Anatov. When Orlu gets home and joins the girls, he shocks Sunny by performing juju to create a “trust knot.” Sunny can’t physically tell anyone what Orlu and Chichi tell her: that they’re magical Leopard People, that Orlu can undo bad juju instinctively, and that Chichi remembers everything she sees. Chichi cryptically says that she believes there’s more to Sunny than meets the eye. Chichi still meets Sunny and invites her to her house, which is a crude mud hut next door to Orlu’s house. Sunny feels like she has friends again, and she feels safer walking with Orlu-a ritual killer named Black Hat Otokoto is on the loose, and his victims are all children.Ī few months after Sunny begins walking with Orlu, Orlu has to go somewhere after school. They begin walking together regularly, and Sunny gets to know Orlu’s other friend, a girl named Chichi who doesn’t attend school. A boy named Orlu rescues Sunny, and they walk home together when they realize they have a lot in common.

Sunny refuses to hit her classmates, but after school, a girl named Jibaku leads several kids to beat Sunny up. To make things worse, she’s the only one who scores highly on a writing assignment, and the teacher tells Sunny to lash her classmates’ hands to punish them for their poor writing. Her classmates dislike and tease her anyway, but now everyone calls her ugly. School is awful for Sunny after she has to cut her hair. As she watched the world end in the candle, the flame caught her hair on fire, and now she has a short, blond Afro. But she does know one thing for sure, since she saw a vision in a candle flame last night: the end of the world is coming. She doesn’t feel like she fits in anywhere. She’s Nigerian but was born in the United States and now lives in Nigeria, and she’s Black but is albino. Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue confuses people.

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