


He knows she’s the Blue-Eyed Bandit from the sharpshooting competition. She asks if he blew up the mines here in Sazi, but he heard it was an accident. Amani discovers Jin was the one who blew up the weapons factory in Dustwalk while she was catching the horse. The Buraqi takes them a full day’s ride in a few hours to Sazi. Jin rides through the crowd on the Buraqi to rescue her. Fazim tells them to torture Tamid to get information of her. He’s hurt.įazim tells the soldiers Amani was with the foreigner in Deadshot.

He’s sad she’s leaving and wasn’t going to say goodbye. Her cousin Shira walks up on them.Īmani runs home to pack a bag to leave instead of marrying to someone in town. He wants the money she will profit from the Buraqi. He will stay quiet about it if she agrees. He was in Deadshot and saw her compete in the contest. Fazim, the boy who has been pursuing her cousin, asks Amani to marry him. Amani ends up catching the horse, thus making it flesh.ĭustwalk throws a party to celebrate the horse’s capture. Amani asks Jin to take her with him.Ī rare Buraqi, a sand horse that can be turned into a real steed by a girl, was spotted. He tells her the commander is Naguib, the Sultan’s son. They’re in town looking for a mercenary wanted for treason.Īmani tends to his wound and wonders what his tattoos mean. Amani hides him behind the shop counter and lies to the soldiers. The foreigner pops into the store to hide. The Sultan’s army and their hired Gallan soldiers arrive to sort out what happened in Deadshot last night. The next morning Amani opens the family’s store for business. Amani crashes into Dahmad as he shoots at the foreigner’s head. They tell the proprietor they’ll miss and let Dahmad win for a small amount of money. They volunteer to shoot the bottle off each other’s head instead. Amani and the foreigner worry about Dahmad’s aim. They must shoot a bottle off the head of a kid to win. The house will make a lot of money if the champion wins once again. Between rounds, Amani talks to the foreigner. She easily advances to the final round against the house champion and foreign boy (the Eastern Snake).

She hopes to find her long-lost Aunt Safiyah there.Īmani takes the money she’s saved to enter a gun-slinging contest in Deadshot. Amani wants to travel to Izmud, a far off city her mother used to tell her stories about. Her uncle wants to take her as one of his many wives. She lives with her aunt, uncle, and cousins. Her mother and no-good father are both dead. ***** Everything below is a SPOILER ***** What happened in Rebel of the Sands?Īmani wants to escape her dead-end life in Dustwalk. – Ahmed – the rebel prince who is hoping to overthrow the Sultan – Naguib – the Sultan’s son who is working to root out rebellion – Jin – a foreign boy who has many talents and many secrets – Amani – a teenage sharpshooter who is restless living in her small desert town
