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Sacred Scars is a young adult fantasy novel written by Kathleen Duey. It was published in hardcover on August 14, 2009. It is the second book of the Ressurection of Magic trilogy. It continues the story of Hahp and Sadima, who live in two different time periods. Hahp struggles with staying alive at the wizard school while Sadima tries to save the boys Somiss stole and set them free.

Plot Summary
The story begins as Sadima attempts to teach the caged orphans Somiss stole off the streets how to copy symbols. Only 2 seem to have any skill in doing so and Sadima is mad that they are caged. She reflects on how cruel Somiss is. He sends Franklin out every day to go steal food and supplies for him while he sits in his room reading all the gypsy books hoping to discover the magic he believes in hidden in the caves. After several failed attempts to convince Franklin to leave with her Sadima decides to take matter into her own hands. She witnesses Somiss experimenting on the boys. He gives one named Jux information then says a song from the gypsy books and Jux forgets everything. After learning this Sadima breaks the boys out and they leave the cave heading for mountains far past her birth place. While on their way there they discover a farm where an old man lives. His wife and son were are dead and he agrees to let them stay. Sadima believes that Somiss will not find them there. One year later she hears horses sailing through the towns and finds Somiss. He is very angry with her and wipes her memory clean.

She later wakes up in the same city that She, Franklin and Somiss lived in during the events of Skin Hunger. She doesn't know who she is and is chased around by children. She quickly learns that she can communicate with animals. After living on the streets for a while she finds a cheese shop named Charlie who gives her food as payment for cleaing. She begins to like him and even finds a cure for him when he grows sick. He informs her that he loves her and they get together. She lives with him for another 50 or so years during which she does not age. This is because back when she was still in the tunnels she sang the song of life that Somiss discovered. He dies and she is heartbroken.

She spends a while sulking and then re-opens the cheese shop a few years later under a different name. She follows a pattern of keeping the shop open for a while then closing it down for 5 to 10 years for about 150 years. About 150 years after she first met Charlie a group of Eridians come to work for her at the cheese shop. The Eridians are people who follow the teachings of Eridia, the last known person to have full control over magic. She taught people that no one should have magic because it is destructive and people would use it for their own selfish means. Sadima goes with her new employees to meetings held by groups of Eridians. During these meetings the people help each other through sorrows faced in their lives. During the same time in the city the wizards have taken over and controll the magistrates the city's governing body.

At the end of the book Sadima and a group of Eridians are trapped while a group of soldies and wizards search for her. One wizard who appears to be Jux locates her and tells her never to come back then leaves.

In the future Hahp is still struggling with the wizard school. The conditions are hard and the students are starving. The students are all treated badly and set up in positions to fail at every point. Every time Hahp discovers something new he feels the disire to share it with the other students so that they may form a pact and kill the wizards. Every class Hahp has with Jux he is forced to get inside the heads of animals. These classes tire him immensly and at one point he dies only to be revived later by Franklin. After these classes he wakes up to his roomate Gerrard's ramblings about how things aren't going how they should be going and other things that he shouldn't be able to know. Hahp appears to wake up again and Gerrard denies having ever said anything.

The classes get harder and harder as time goes on and the other stundents are constantly starved. Eventually Hahp is taken to a wizard who teaches him how to communicate without speaking. The wizard claims to do this in order to help them with their pact and that Somiss doesn't know how to do it. He teaches the other students with an exeption of one, Luke. Luke becomes a puppet of Somiss and the other students decide he is too dangerous to be allowed to live and slit his wrists to make it seem like he killed himself out of despair.