The Red Pyramid

Back in human form, Sadie takes over the telling as Carter wakes from his ba excursion. Sadie transformed back to a human about an hour before, thanks to everything Carter said about focusing on her humanity, but she can’t bring herself to tell him he helped. Carter explains what he saw, including the demon’s suggestion for even more chaos. The news unsettles Bast, who ominously proclaims that “this is not like Set” (279).

The group goes to the University of Memphis, the most likely place to find Thoth, and comes across a group of baboons playing basketball, one of which is Khufu. Khufu returned to the destroyed mansion to wait. When no one came, he went to Thoth because baboons are under the god’s protection. Since Bast has had a rocky road with Thoth, she leaves, and Carter plays a terrible basketball game with the monkeys before going to see the god.

Thoth is a hippie in his early twenties who is newly obsessed with blues music and barbecue. He believes Horus and Isis are in charge of Sadie’s and Carter’s bodies and can’t believe the gods have the nerve to ask for help with